Old World, New World
The Story of Britain and America
- Paperback
880 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2009
Summary
In OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD Kathleen Burk sets out to tell the story of Britain and America across four hundred years, from colonisation to Iraq. There are two strands to this story. The first is the grand narrative that takes in the British colonisation of America and the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War and the global conflicts of the twentieth century. This is the story of America s inevitable eclipse of its former colonial master as a Great Power, and of the enmities and sym…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349119199 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349119198 |
| Author: | Professor Kathleen Burk, Kathleen Burk |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 880 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 596g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 44mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
An ambitious narrative… in rich detail… Burk enlightens her grand narrative with three interludes of cultural history… Old World, New World is still the most reliable, lucidly narrated and generous history of the mutual entanglement of Britain and America we are likely to have for some time. It is a story of two worlds. - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Balanced, intelligent, insightful and sometimes funny, Burk’s book is sure to be regarded as the definitive work on the subject - Dominic Sandbrook, LITERARY REVIEWOLD WORLD, NEW WORLD should be compulsory reading in No 10 and the Foreign Office - THE TIMESImmensely thought-provoking … lucid, enjoyably propulsive narrative - GUARDIANAbout The Author
Professor Kathleen Burk
Kathy Burk is Professor of Modern History at University College London and a regular columnist and radio panelist. She is the author of several distinguished books on the US and its interventions in the rest of the world, and a definitive biography of A. J. P. Taylor, the famous media historian.
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