The US "Culture Wars" and the Anglo-American Special Relationship
This book discusses “culture” and the origins of the Anglo-American special relationship (the AASR). The bitter dispute between ethnic groups in the US from 1914–17—a period of time characterized as the “culture wars”—laid the groundwork both for US inter
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he US “Culture Wars” and the Anglo-American Special Relationship
David G. Haglund
The US “Culture Wars” and the Anglo-American Special Relationship
David G. Haglund Department of Political Studies Queen’s University Kingston, ON, Canada
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Preface and Acknowledgments
The inspiration for this monograph came to me a few years back, as I was carrying out the research and writing of a book on “ethnic diasporas” and the rise and evolution of the Canada-US security community.1 In particular, two quotations from participants on opposite sides in a bitter American policy debate of the immediate post-First World War era struck me as suggestive, possibly even seminal, for future research. One quotation I found in an anti-British tract published by an Irish-American activist organization involved in an energetic lobbying campaign against the Versailles treaty, under consideration, in 1919, for ratification by the senate: “For the first time since the American Revolution it has been possible to be more British than American and still claim and retain legally United States citizenship.”2 The other quotation was from a supporter of the treaty, a Democratic senator from Mississippi named John Sharp Williams, who lamented during the course of that debate that “[w]e have reached the point where no man can be a real American unless he is an Irish-American or a German-American.”3 Now, from work I had done early in my academic career, especially my doctoral dissertation at
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