Too often, scholarship on Anglo-American political relations has focused on mutual social and economic interests between Britain and the United States as the basis for cooperation. Breaking new ground,Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas instead explores how ideas, on either side of the Atlantic have mutually influenced each other. In those transnational interactions, there forms a shared tradition of political ideas, facilitating a common cast of mind that has served as the basis for transatlantic relations and socio-political values for decades.

Steve Marsh is Reader in international politics at Cardiff University, UK. His principal research interests lie in post-World War Two international politics with a particular focus on American foreign policy and Anglo-American relations. His latest book, (2020, co-edited with Robert M Hendershot), isCulture Matters. Anglo-American Relations and the Intangibles of Specialness.

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Introduction
Alan P. Dobson and Steve Marsh

Part I: Origins

Chapter 1. This Golden Band: A Heritage of Anglo-American Correspondence
Kristin Cook

Chapter 2. Burkean Peace Theory:  Radicalism, Conservatism and the Constitutional Heritage of Britain and the United States in the Age of Revolutions
Gavin Bailey

Part II: Ideological Philosophies

Chapter 3. Anglo-American Liberalism: The Tradition?
Alan Dobson

Chapter 4. Of Friendships and Fissures:  Anglo-American Conservatism
Reed Davis

Part III: Ideas and Institutions

Chapter 5. Rivalry and Reform: Abolition, Race and Anglo-American Relations in the Nineteenth Century
David Brown and Clive Webb

Chapter 6. The US Postcolonial e/Empire: The Case of the Missing Upper Case
David Ryan

Chapter 7. The Anglo-American Tradition in International Law
David Clinton

Part IV: Distinctive Features of An Anglo-American tradition

Chapter 8. The Anglosphere: Rise and Demise of an Anglo-American Policy Idea
David Haglund

Chapter 9. Reformulating Anglo-Saxon Identity: Intersections of Racism, National Identities, and Transatlantic Stereotypes in the Nineteenth Century
Robert Hendershot

Chapter 10. Anglo-American relations: a political tradition of special relationship(s)
Steve Marsh