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Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America
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Professor Kathleen Burk is probably the leading academic authority on Anglo-American Relations in the UK, if not the world. Old World, New World is truly groundbreaking: no writer has previously attempted to take on the Anglo-American relationship across its four hundred years. This is a testament to the ambition of Professor Kathleen Burk, whose unparalleled knowledge of the intertwining histories of Britain and America is the fruit of an academic career dedicated to their study. Old World, New World is the definitive history of the Anglo-American relationship told from both sides. The positions of Britain and America -sometimes aligned, often opposed are without doubt the forces that shaped world history. With clarity, it explains how the events of the early seventeenth century influence those of early twenty-first, and provides a fascinating account of a story that runs from colonisation to the present day.
Burk goes far beyond a simple recounting of the major events to examine the similarities, differences and influences in the spheres of religion, culture, economics, social reform and even romance. We come to learn why Christianity thrives in America even as it withers in Britain; what Nathaniel Hawthorne thought of the British and what Dickens thought of America; why Britain came to rely on reluctantly given American money to stave off a succession of financial crises; why Britain led the way in the abolition of slavery; and why the GI brides who travelled to America after the Second World War were so often disappointed by their new
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A lecture event
Tuesday 30th October 2007
at 7:30 pm
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