Wilson, Callaghan and the management of Anglo-American relations, 1974-1976
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12585797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steve Marsh (Cardiff University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-51 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary British History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1361-9462 • E-ISSN: 1743-7997 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13619462.2020.1785292 |
| OpenAlex | W3043381923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 53 |
The Conservative Heath government dropped the term special relationship from the vernacular of Anglo-American relations. Britain’s usefulness to the US was in question, too, epitomised in the April 1975 Wall Street Journal headline of ‘Goodbye Great Britain’. Yet the succeeding Wilson and Callaghan Labour governments were determined to revive Anglo-American relations. This article argues they achieved more to this end than hitherto acknowledged through how they managed Anglo-American relations. Particular attention is drawn to resetting the tone of relations, strategies of engagement of American officials to control fallout from British retrenchment and a discursive modernisation of the special relationship
Economic history · Government (linguistics · Headline · Linguistics · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Retrenchment · Sociology · Vernacular · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Scottish History and National Identity
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |