Specialness is semaphor. It needs to be decoded and analyzed. Otherwise it is unintelligible. 'It is special. It just is. And that's that' - Margaret Thatcher, in characteristic mode. Yet scholars have not done much better. Too often in the literature of the special relationship attitude trumps analysis. These essays represent a consolidated attempt to go further. They investigate the who and what and how of this extraordinary relationship. They focus on the personalities and strategies of the wartime and post-war period. They examine the meaning and demeaning of an idea - the idea of a boon companion in a hostile world - and they ask if we can, after all, specify specialness.
- ISBN10 0333699971
- ISBN13 9780333699973
- Publish Date 28 January 1998 (first published 1 December 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 16 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English