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Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

Hitchens, Christopher

Paperback

Series: Nation Books

British HistoryInternational RelationsUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1560255927
ISBN13: 9781560255925
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: Mar 1 2004
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.08
Height: 1.14 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's special relationship with Britain. But as events have shown, especially in the wake of 9/11, the political and cultural ties between America and Britain have grown stronger. Blood, Class and Empire examines the dynamics of this relationship, its many cultural manifestations - the James Bond series, PBS's Brit Kitsch, Rudyard Kipling - and explains why it still persists. Contrarian, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens notes that while the relationship is usually presented as a matter of tradition, manners, and common culture, sanctified by wartime alliance, the special ingredient is empire; transmitted from an ancien regime that has tried to preserve and renew itself thereby. England has attempted to play Greece to the American Rome, but ironically having encouraged the United States to become an equal partner in the business of empire, Britain found itself supplanted.

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