Anglo-American Connection Research Articles

The Anglo-American Connection: Examining the Intersection of Nationality with Class, Gender, and Race in the James Bond Films

James Bond/007 is a popular cultural icon of British identity. Working as a secret agent for the British organization MI6, Bond travels the world on missions and acts in the best interest of his country to safeguard its geopolitical interests.1 While he can and does harbor doubts about these missions, he is nonetheless depicted as a loyal agent serving Queen and Country, as Domino Derval remarks in Thunderhall (Terence Young 1965). Although Bond operates as a solo agent and is not assigned a regular 00 partner, he often works opportunistically with those he encounters in the field, and more routinely with other non-British agents, collaborating frequently with American allies. These relationships, both opportunistic and planned, are crucial to mission success and have been seen by many scholars and fans as indicative of the changing contours of the post-1945 geopolitical world, and the Anglo-American relationship.In the Eon/United Artists Bond films, these American characters usually work for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and represent American geopolitical interests, such as furthering regional hegemony in strategic spaces such as the Arctic, the Caribbean, East Asia, and even outer space. According to the historian Jeremy Black and author of the Politics of James Bond, support for the United States [was] central to British policy during the cold war [and] is important to Bond's in the films (Black 94). The depiction of Bond working with American allies not only helps to connect the common geopolitical interests of Britain with America vis-a-vis the challenges posed by China, Russia, and nonstate entities such as SPECTRE, but it also serves as a way to attract American filmgoers to the films (Bennett and Woollacott 29). Even the choice to cast Sean Connery over David Niven for the role of Bond in Dr. No (Terence Young 1962) was judged a commercial necessity. Producer Albert R. Broccoli felt that Niven was too English for the part and envisioned for Bond a more midAtlantic image with a tougher persona that would appeal to both British and American audiences.2 Not only did the films rely on the United States as a primary market, but the films themselves were strongly shaped by American creative personnel like Broccoli and screenwriter Richard Maibaum. Without United Artists underwriting the earliest Bond films, the franchise would never have developed in the manner that it did.3This article considers the representation and geopolitical significance of Bond's American allies to better understand how Anglo-American geopolitical interests are refracted across the different eras of the franchise. The intersection of nationality with class, gender, and race shapes the reading of American characters and informs the nature of their relationships with Bond. A number of recurring characters and character types appear across the franchise including Felix Leiter, a variety of American Bond Girls, and a handful of minor figures like J.W. Pepper and Jack Wade. But those intersections, however important, are not sufficient in their own right. Bond's repeated demonstration of what he can do, touch, and feel also matters to the relationship. His ability to connect is what makes the relationship special with his American allies-he can push the button at the right moment, seduce a key informant, and sense danger that others cannot. So while Bond may be the junior partner operating in a Cold War geopolitical climate dominated by the United States, it is his personal intuition, touch, and movement that allows him to connect with people, objects and sites/spaces, and thus emerge as a dominant/superior figure.The Connery Era ( 1962-67, 1971): Establishing the AngloAmerican ConnectionThe Anglo-American connection was established in the Connery era through the pairing of Bond with a male CIA operative. Felix Leiter is the best-known American ally of Bond and a close friend who appears in ten films across the franchise. …

Yoshiyuki Kikuchi. Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry: The Lab as Contact Zone.

Yoshiyuki Kikuchi. Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry: The Lab as Contact Zone.

Astronomer R.G. Chandra: In the Light of His Anglo-American Connection

In the present paper we have presented some documents to reveal the longstanding relationship of Indian amateur astronomer R.G. Chandra with the British Astronomical Association and American Association of Variable Star Observers.

Britain: Balancing ‘Instinctive Atlanticism’1

This article highlights four key aspects of British ballistic missile defence policy. These are, first, the Anglo-American connection; second, the participation in American-led ‘coalitions of the willing’; third, the role of NATO; and, fourth, the role of the defence industry. These four factors operate inside a strategic culture of ‘instinctive Atlanticism’ coupled with a Europeanist trend in recent years. Developments in the United States are likely to be more influential in British policy than missile proliferation. An American offer of BMD coverage of the UK homeland, perhaps as part of the American system, might be attractive, but the lack of a strong pro-missile defence constituency in Britain, other than in the defence industry, probably means that it is only in this context that London would make such a decision.

Québécois Theatre: Michel Tremblay and Marie Laberge

The French colonists (‘habitants’) who began settling Canada in the early seventeenth century brought with them the French language, the Catholic religion, and French cultural traditions. These basic elements of ‘le patrimoine’ continued to evolve in the North American context after France abandoned the colony in 1760. Under the influence of a conservative political establishment and the Catholic Church for two centuries, French Canadians perceived themselves as an isolated minority whose duty was to preserve their language, religion, culture, and agrarian traditions. A collective identity crisis during the 1960s led to the conclusion that the old social, educational, and religious institutions had failed to keep up with the forces of modernization, industrialization, and urbanization which had transformed the province. During the period known as the ‘Révolution tranquille’, political reforms gave Quebec greater autonomy within the Canadian confederation, economic reforms improved material conditions, and educational reforms began preparing future generations for productive careers. Rejecting the term ‘Canadien français’ because it connoted colonial status, Quebec intellectuals adopted the term ‘Québécois’ and called for the creation of a national literature, independent from its French roots and its Anglo-American connections. This distinctive Québécois literature would reflect the reality of their lives and speak to them in the language of Quebec.

The Discourse of slavery: Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison

Acknowledgements Foreword Isobel Armstrong Introduction Carl Plasa and Betty J. Ring 1. Looks That Kill: Violence and Representation In Aphra Behn's Oroonoko Anne Fogarty 2. Sex, Slavery and Rights in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindications Jane Moore 3. That Mild Beam: Enlightenment and Enslavement in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion Steven Vine 4. Silent Revolt: Slavery and the Politics of Metaphor in Jane Eyre Carl Plasa 5. Anglo-American Connections: Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Iron of Slavery Elizabeth Jean Sabiston 6. Painting by Numbers: Figuring Frederick Douglass Betty J.Ring 7. Perilous Passages in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Jon Hauss 8. The Irony of Idealism: William Faulkner and the South's Construction of the Mulatto David Lawrence Rogers 9. Prophesying Bodies: Calling for a Politics of Collectivity in Toni Morrison's Beloved Notes on Contributors Index

The Highgate Cemetery Vampire Hunt: The Anglo-American Connection in Satanic Cult Lore

L'article developpe - dans le cadre des rites religieux, des messes noires et des sorcieres qui ont sucites bien des paniques - le cas du cimetiere de Highgate en Grande-Bretagne a la fin des annees 1960. Les membres de la British Occult Society se reunissaient dans les cimetieres. En 1969, ces personnes crurent voir des fantomes. Les deux principaux meneurs, Farrant et Manchester, se separerent car le second elabora une these sur les vampires et etablit des rites d'exorcisme. Quant a Farrant il fut juge en 1973 et considere comme coupable d'avoir endommage les monuments du cimetieres et menace les detectives avec des poupees vaudou ; l'inculpation de sacrifices sanguins fut ecartee. Ces evenements arriverent aux Etats-Unis comme un echange cyclique de tradition avec la Grande-Bretagne.

Book-Publishing 1835–1900: The Anglo-American Connection

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook-Publishing 1835–1900: The Anglo-American ConnectionJames L. W. West IIIJames L. W. West III Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Volume 84, Number 4DECEMBER 1990 Published for the Bibliographical Society of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.84.4.24303059 Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref COPYRIGHT 1990 THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICAPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Laurel Brake Harper’s New Monthly Magazine: American Censorship, European Decadence, and the Periodicals Market in the 1890s, (Jan 1994): 104–124.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23322-9_6

Anglo-American Connections in Folklore and Folklife

CONSIDERING that the settlement, language, and arts of the United States derived in great part from the British Isles, one would expect the links between folklore studies in the two places to be stronger.' This is not to say that great achievements have not been made. Every student of folklore knows of Harvard Professor Francis James Child's catalogue of British ballads, the Englishman Cecil Sharp's harvest of English folk songs in the southern Appalachians of the United States, Vance Randolph's vast collection of tales and customs derived from British inspiration in the American Ozarks, or Richard Dorson's encyclopedic narrative of the Victorian British folklorists.2 And it is possible to point to a flurry of research activity across the Atlantic before the turn of the century, and again after World War II; but until recently Americans, like their English cousins in folklore studies, mostly turned their lenses on peoples they considered more exoticAmerican Indians, east and south European immigrants, Africans, and Asians. This essay offers some possible explanations for this transatlantic rift and suggests a research agenda involving the analysis of the structure and aesthetics guiding traditions. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND American folklorists had the best intentions for Anglo-American study. After all, they organized the American Folklore Society in 1888 on the model of the English society formed ten years earlier, and in a nod to the mission of the Folklore Society they announced that their Society served to encourage the 'collection of the fast-vanishing remains of folklore in America.' Several examples of these remains were given, including the lore of French Canada, Indian tribes in North America, and negroes in the Southern States, but listed first were 'relics of old English folk-lore (ballads, tales, superstitions, etc.).3 The anthropological emphasis in the Society's early years, however, ensured the attitude that the workings of culture were revealed by attention to the primitive and exotic, rather than by the historical examination of the common and everyday centred on the immediate past. British precedent helped to establish this principle. Evolutionary doctrine reigned, and in folklore study it supported a search for a long-hidden past where the origins of modern institutions in pagan rituals could be unearthed. For the Victorians, the genre of custom and belief, and its symbolic ascent from superstition to science, from rude existence to genteel manners, became the standard topic for study. This anthropological study of folklore was particularly suited to English and American ideas of civilization. According to the predominant philosophy, civilizing was a moral and technological uplifting of peoples into nations and empires. In the best-selling works of the Englishman Herbert Spencer, who applied Darwin's precepts to the civilizing process, and of similarly minded scholars in America such as John Fiske, Lewis Henry Morgan, and William Graham Sumner (who all wrote on folkways), Victorians read of folklore as key evidence of the rise of civilization from savage and barbaric stages.4 This rise was tied to

American History: The View from Britain

There is today probably no peculiarly British view of American history. British scholars would give different answers to the question of how they approach the history of the United States. Several would insist that the kind of history they write is no different from that of American scholars, that their preoccupations are the same as professional historians living in Boston or Berkeley, their publishers the same, their academic audience the same. Other British scholars take the view that their approach to American history is conditioned by their British environment, that they have a duty to interpret America to British readers, and that their research should take advantage of British archives, such as in examinations of Anglo-American connections. Yet other British scholars seem to take the view that distance can be a virtue, that they can stand apart from the historiographical battles waging between American academics, perhaps mediating them by writing works of synthesis. And some scholars would tersely deny that they had any larger conception of their relationship to their subject; what they write, they would assert, is determined by the availability of travel grants, the accessibility of publishers, and the tempers of their spouses. To a large extent, the peculiar condition of British students of American history is that they are simultaneously members of two academic worlds, British and American, and have to give heed to both. Once upon a time there was a characteristic British view of American history, and that is that it was barely worth attention, despite such pioneering works as those of the eighteenth-century Whig John Oldmixon.' British history, after all, had riches enough of its own, and through the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century British historians did not trouble themselves much with the United States, whose history seemed to be little more than a degenerate and wayward version of British history. This condescending view was shattered by the return of the prodigal in the Second World War. The emergence of the United States as a global power commanded a more respectful attitude toward American history in British academic circles. It was in the years after 1945 that the serious academic study of American history took off in Britain, encouraged by British and American governments anxious to strengthen the Atlantic partnership. Courses on American history became a standard feature of British universities and fulltime specialists in the subject, committed both to its teaching and its research, were appointed.

The Anglo-American connection: rival rationalities in planning theory and practice, 1955 - 1980

Since 1950, planning theory and practice have been affected by a series of intellectual revolutions, affecting especially the Anglo-American world. In the 1950s and 1960s, the traditional blueprint or master plan approach was largely supplanted by the systems approach, but this, like its predecessor, was based on the assumption that professional experts could predict and control the outside world in the interests of the whole society. In the late 1960s, as this assumption was questioned, a new style of planning emerged which assumed that planning objectives were inherently contradictory and that the planner should act as advocate for a particular group, within a context where planners and their clients were both engaged in a learning process. In the 1970s a wide spectrum of Marxist approaches came to dominate planning theory, but paradoxically these invariably proved quietist in their prescriptions for action. In the 1980s there is continuing doubt about the ends of planning action and an ignorance about ...

Men and Brothers: Anglo-American Antislavery Cooperation , and: British Antislavery, 1833-1870 (review)

60CIVIL WAR HISTORY The book is marred by frequent typographical errors and bad writing . One example of the latter will have to suffice. Early in the volume, (p. 15), Schultz writes that the Act of 1789 "provided that girls were to go to school with boys and to study the same subjects." From this, I assumed that a coeducational system was established. In a later chapter (p. 117) one reads that girls "had to leave the schools in the middle of October to make room for boys returning from agricultural and industrial pursuits." Evidently, girls were taught separately. A word of caution should also be offered about an outline map of the city which is reprinted several times to illustrate various data. During the period covered by this book, Boston did not have the contours which it has now. It was practically an island attached to the mainland by a narrow isthmus, the present-day Washington Street. Back Bay was built to the west of the isthmus. On this map, Back Bay is located on either side of Washington Street. The outline of Back Bay appears as if it actually existed in the 1830s, 40s, and 50s. For that matter, Beacon Hill is misplaced to the north of its actual location. These may not be important points in themselves, but they are symptomatic of the carelessness that characterizes the work. Harold Schwartz Kent State University Men and Brothers: Anglo-American Antislavery Cooperation. By Betty Fladeland. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972. Pp. xiv, 478. $11.50.) British Antislavery, 1833-1870. By Howard Temperley. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1972. Pp. xvii, 284. $12.95. ) "The transatlantic philanthropists," Edward Abdy, the British traveler to America, called the Anglo-American foes of slavery. From the American Revolution through Reconstruction a theme of Anglo-American cooperation runs through the history of the struggles against the Atlantic slave trade, Negro slavery, and for the uplift of blacks. Only sketchily told before, this important Anglo-American theme is now systematically related in Betty Fladeland's Men and Brothers. The English historian Howard Temperley, concerned with British antislavery, supplements the theme, both by offering a study of a parallel movement and by treating aspects of the Anglo-American connection. The British and American antislavery movements had much in common and interacted upon one another. But first it should be recognized that the problem of emancipation in the United States was far different from that in the United Kingdom. In the English instance the slaves were living at great distance from the mother country, were of waning importance as an economic factor in the imperial economy, and small in number compared to the American figure (800,000 in 1833 vs. 2,000,000 in 1830 and 4,000,000 in 1860). Moreover, Parliament faced BOOK REVIEWS61 no impediment of states rights in freeing slaves in the West Indies and Mauritius; the Empire feared no danger of disruption in the event of emancipation; and the institution did not divide political parties. Distance lent enchantment to British antislavery activities. Freedmen in the islands presented no danger to metropolitan England of insurrection , of exodus to "this other Eden," and of racial amalgamation. Sugar grown by black slave labor had lost its eminence in an industrializing economy. Parliament in 1833 in abolishing slavery omitted British India and Ceylon where there were difficulties of vast magnitude. It enjoyed popular sanction for compensation to slaveholders and for apprenticeship . As matters worked out, apprenticeship rather promptly broke down, sugar production declined, and in the year the American Civil War ended Jamaica Negroes, following an old tradition, rose in revolt, only to be brutally dealt with by measures that included the burning of villages and the slaughter of about four hundred blacks. If British and American abolitionists encountered different obstacles, they drew inspiration from a common background and often labored through reciprocating means. They were impelled by religion, humanitarianism , the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. As Anne T. Gary pointed out years ago the Quakers were an important AngloAmerican antislavery force. From the middle of the eighteenth century, the American Anthony Benezet was a one-man coordinator of an Atlantic -wide antislavery crusade. Though...

The British Whigs on America: 1820–1860

There has been a tendency among historians of the Anglo-American connection to suggest that there was a fairly rigid dichotomy in English opinion about America in the first half of the nineteenth century. On the one hand, it is suggested, there were the Radicals, who, by tradition and in principle, favoured the United States and its institutions. This group - the Left of that period - comprised the excluded classes of society, the dissenters, the artisans and labourers, the Chartists and democrats, the utilitarians. Confronting them was the Establishment, opposed to innovation, and especially democratic innovation, embittered by memories of 1776 and 1812, and therefore thoroughly anti-American.

“Where the Difference between the Thames and the Atlantic!?” - Frank Thistlethwaite, The Anglo-American Connection in the Early Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959; O.U.P., 36s.) pp. viii, 222.

“Where the Difference between the Thames and the Atlantic!?” - Frank Thistlethwaite, The Anglo-American Connection in the Early Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959; O.U.P., 36s.) pp. viii, 222.

The Anglo-American Connection in the Early Nineteenth Century.

The Anglo-American Connection in the Early Nineteenth Century.

The Anglo-American Connection in the Early Nineteenth Century

Journal Article The Anglo-American Connection in the Early Nineteenth Century. By Frank Thistlethwaite. Studies in American Civilization. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959. x + 222 pp. Notes and index. $4.50.) Get access Ruth Miller Elson Ruth Miller Elson Vassar College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 46, Issue 2, September 1959, Pages 307–308, https://doi.org/10.2307/1891537 Published: 01 September 1959

The Anglo-American Connection in the Early Nineteenth Century.

The Anglo-American Connection in the Early Nineteenth Century.