Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's special relationship with Britain. But as events have shown, especially in the wake of 9/11, the political and cultural ties between America and Britain have grown stronger. Blood, Class and Empire examines the dynamics of this relationship, its many cultural manifestations -- the James Bond series, PBS brit Kitsch, Rudyard Kipling -- and explains why it still persists. Contrarian, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens notes that while the relationship is usually presented as a matter of tradition, manners, and common culture, sanctified by wartime alliance, the special ingredient is empire; transmitted from an ancien regime that has tried to preserve and renew itself thereby. England has attempted to play Greece to the American Rome, but ironically having encouraged the United States to become an equal partner in the business of empire, Britain found itself supplanted.

Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: 03/19/2004
Pages: 428
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.54w x 1.14d
ISBN13: 9781560255925
ISBN10: 1560255927
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | International Relations | Diplomacy
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
- Political Science | American Government | General

About the Author
Christopher Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School. He is the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, George Orwell, Mother Teresa, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger, and his #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award nominee, God Is Not Great.