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A Special Relationship?

Professor Donald Cameron Watt has written a significant, fascinating and remarkable book on a subject which is still of great contemporary importance. It is historiographically significant because it is the first work in the field for many years which is based on wide and deep research in the archives; indeed it is perhaps the very first to do so for the whole of twentieth-century Anglo-American relations. It is fascinating not only for the depth and scope of this research, but for the meticulous mastery of its detailed material. A very great deal of factual information and comment is packed into its three hundred pages. It is remarkable for its vigour, and indeed its not infrequently polemical character, which makes it pretty unlikely that it will command anything approaching universal assent. It does have a commanding, a formidable, critical apparatus. The bibliography and the footnotes make up about one-fifth of the whole volume and are, and will be, of very great value to students and scholars in the field. Taken together they must in fact constitute quite the best bibliographical guide to the subject that we have. In general the index, too, is comprehensive and of good quality. Perhaps he does not give full recognition in the work to the old masters of the subject: I could not find, for instance, any mention anywhere of the foundation work of Lionel M. Gelber on the history of Anglo-American relations, especially The Rise of Anglo-American Friendship {IS^8~I^O6), first published in 1938. This is perhaps the more surprising in that he wrote several other relevant works, even including one in 1961 with the title America in Britain's Place, Professor Watt's subtitle. In his sub-subtitle Professor Watt gives his fullest guidance as to the nature of his book — "A study of the Anglo-American relationship and world politics in the context of British and American foreign-policy-making in the twentieth century." In the opening words of the Preface he writes, "This book, it should be clear, is not a history of Anglo-American relations since 1900." This is perhaps a prudent disclaimer in the case of a work which is in part a study of "international history" in a global context, and the volume is plainly not, and not intended to be, a narrative history; it sets out to be an instance of that other historical genre, the analytical survey. This is the case even setting aside the last section of the