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Record Nr.

UNISA996207149003316

Autore

Colman Jonathan

Titolo

A 'special relationship'? [[e-book] ] : Harold Wilson, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Anglo-American relations 'at the summit', 1964-68 / / Jonathan Colman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004

ISBN

1-5261-3720-8

1-280-71962-1

9786610719624

1-84779-107-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 pages) : digital file(s)

Disciplina

327.41073/09046

Soggetti

Summit meetings

United States Foreign relations Great Britain

Great Britain Foreign relations United States

Great Britain Foreign relations 1964-1979

United States Foreign relations 1963-1969

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. The approach to the summit -- 2. The Washington summit, 7-9 December 1964 -- 3. From discord to cordiality, January-April 1965 -- 4. 'A battalion would be worth a billion'? May-December 1965 -- 5. Dissociation, January-July 1966 -- 6. A declining relationship, August 1966-September 1967 -- 7. One ally among many, October 1967-December 1968 -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first full-length study of the fraught and controversial personal relationship between Prime Minister Harold Wilson and President Lyndon B Johnson, placed in the context of such issues as the Vietnam War, British economic weakness and the UK's dissociation from American measures in Vietnam.