Orde, The Eclipse Of Great Britain - The United States And British Imperial Decline, 1895-1965; Porter, The Lion's Share - A Short History Of British Imperialism, 1850-1995

Abstract

British scholars of the empire seem much more obsessed with the decline of British imperial glory than their more dispassionate American colleagues. Indeed, some such as John Channley in a revisionist mode stridently point out the guilty parties--Churchill and the United States: Anne Orde, formerly of the University of Durham, offers a straight forward analysis of the displacement of Britain by the United States in the twentieth century.