Britain And The Americas

by Kaufman, Will

• ISBN13: 9781851094318
• ISBN10: 1851094318
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-31
• Publisher: Abc-Clio Inc

Summary

A comprehensive encyclopedia covering the close ties between Britain and the whole of the Americas, examining Britain's cultural and political legacy to the nations of the New World.

Table of Contents

Advisory Board	xiii
Series Editor's Preface	xv
Editors' Preface	xvii
Topic Finder	xix
Chronology of Britain and the Americas	xxv
Introductory Essays	1	(2)
Britain and the Atlantic World	3	(8)
Britain and Canada	11	(12)
Britain and the Caribbean	23	(10)
Britain and Latin America	33	(12)
Britain and The United States	45	(14)
ABC Conference	59	(1)
Abolition	60	(2)
Acadia	62	(1)
Afghanistan	63	(6)
Agriculture	69	(2)
Air Transport	71	(2)
Alabama Claims	73	(1)
Alaska Boundary Dispute	74	(1)
Albany Congress	75	(1)
Alberta	76	(2)
Americanization	78	(2)
America's Cup	80	(2)
Anglo-American Caribbean Commission	82	(1)
Anglo-American Conference	83	(1)
Anglophilia	84	(3)
Anglophobia	87	(3)
Anglo-Saxonism	90	(2)
Anguilla	92	(1)
Anti-Americanism	93	(3)
Antigua and Barbuda	96	(2)
Appeasement	98	(2)
Argentina	100	(3)
Aroostook War	103	(1)
Art and Artists, Britain-Canada	104	(5)
Art and Artists, Britain-Caribbean	109	(3)
Art and Artists, Britain-Latin America	112	(1)
Art and Artists, Britain-US	113	(6)
Asiento	119	(1)
Association	120	(1)
Association Football (Soccer)	121	(3)
Atlantic, Battle of the	124	(2)
Atlantic Charter	126	(1)
Atlantic Economy	127	(4)
Bacon's Rebellion	131	(2)
Bahamas	133	(2)
Balfour Declaration	135	(1)
Balfour Report	136	(1)
Balkans Conflicts	137	(5)
Baptists	142	(3)
Barbados	145	(2)
Bermuda	147	(3)
Black Poor	150	(1)
Black Refugees	151	(2)
Blues Music	153	(3)
Boer War	156	(2)
Bolivia	158	(3)
Boston Massacre	161	(1)
Boston Tea Party	162	(1)
Boxer Uprising	163	(1)
Brandywine, Battle of the	164	(2)
Brazil	166	(2)
Breda, Treaty of	168	(1)
Bretton Woods Conference	169	(2)
British Columbia	171	(2)
British Commonwealth	173	(3)
British Empire	176	(3)
British Guiana\Guyana	179	(4)
British Honduras/Belize	183	(2)
British North America Act	185	(3)
British Orders in Council	188	(1)
British Virgin Islands	189	(3)
British West Indian Emancipation Act	192	(2)
Bunker Hill, Battle of	194	(3)
Cairo Conference	197	(2)
Cambridge Five, The	199	(2)
Canada Act	201	(2)
Canadian Citizenship Legislation	203	(1)
Caroline Affair	204	(1)
Catholicism	205	(3)
Cattle	208	(2)
Charleston	210	(1)
Charleston, Battle of	211	(2)
Chile	213	(3)
China	216	(2)
Chubut	218	(1)
Church of England	219	(2)
Cinema	221	(5)
Civil War, US	226	(3)
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty	229	(1)
Coalition Diplomacy	230	(2)
Coffee	232	(3)
Cold War	235	(7)
Colonists and Settlers, British in the Caribbean	242	(5)
Colonists and Settlers, British in Latin America	247	(4)
Colonists and Settlers, British in North America	251	(5)
Combined Chiefs of Staff	256	(1)
Combined Policy Committee	257	(1)
Committees of Correspondence	258	(1)
Common Law	259	(2)
Confederate States of America	261	(2)
Congregationalism	263	(3)
Conservatism	266	(4)
Constitution Act of 1982	270	(1)
Constitution, US	271	(3)
Continental Army	274	(3)
Continental Congress	277	(5)
Contraband	282	(1)
Coolidge Naval Conference	283	(1)
Cotton	284	(2)
Cotton Famine	286	(3)
Country Music	289	(5)
Covenant Theology	294
Cowpens, Battle of	292	(2)
Creole Mutiny	294	(1)
Cricket	295	(2)
Cruise Missiles	297	(2)
Cuba	299	(4)
Darien	303	(1)
Debt Crises, Latin America	304	(3)
Declaration of Independence, US	307	(2)
Declaratory Act	309	(1)
Democracy	310	(5)
Dependency Theory	315	(3)
Detroit, Battle of	318	(1)
Diego Garcia	319	(1)
Disarmament	320	(2)
Dominica	322	(2)
Drama and Theater, Britain-Canada	324	(2)
Drama and Theater, Britain-Caribbean	326	(3)
Drama and Theater, Britain-US	329	(3)
Dutch Wars	332	(3)
Ecuador	335	(1)
Embargo Act	336	(2)
Empire Games	338	(3)
English Language	341	(5)
Enlightenment	346	(3)
Episcopalianism	349	(3)
Essex Case	352	(1)
European Integration	353	(3)
Eutaw Springs, Battle of	356	(1)
Evangelicalism	357	(3)
Explorers, British in the Americas	360	(7)
Falkland/Malvinas Islands	367	(1)
Falklands War	368	(4)
Feminism, Anglo-American	372	(2)
Fiction, Britain-Canada	374	(5)
Fiction, Britain-Caribbean	379	(3)
Fiction, Britain-US	382	(5)
Five Power Treaty	387	(1)
Folk Songs and Ballads	388	(3)
Fort George	391	(1)
Four Power Treaty	392	(1)
France	393	(6)
Free Trade	399	(5)
French and Indian Wars	404	(2)
Fulbright Scholarships	406	(2)
Fur Trade	408	(3)
``Gaelic Runners''	411	(2)
Germany	413	(4)
Ghent, Treaty of	417	(2)
Golf	419	(2)
Governor-General of Canada, Office of	421	(2)
Grand Strategy	423	(3)
Greece	426	(3)
Greenham Common	429	(3)
Grenada	432	(3)
Guano	435	(3)
Gulf War (1991)	438	(3)
Harkness Fellowships	441	(1)
Hay-Pauncefote Treaties	442	(1)
House-Grey Memorandum	443	(1)
Hudson's Bay Company	444	(5)
Imagism	449	(2)
Impressment	451	(2)
Indentured Servitude	453	(1)
Indian Kings, The	454	(1)
Indochina	455	(3)
Intelligence	458	(3)
Intolerable Acts	461	(1)
Investment, British in the Caribbean	462	(3)
Investment, British in Latin America	465	(5)
Iran	470	(3)
Iraq	473	(4)
Ireland	477	(5)
Iron Curtain	482	(1)
Iroquois League	483	(4)
Jacobins	487	(3)
Jacobites	490	(1)
Jamaica	491	(4)
Jamestown	495	(2)
Japan	497	(5)
Jay's Treaty	502	(1)
Jazz	503	(2)
Jenkins's Ear, War of	505	(1)
Joint Stock Companies	506	(5)
King George's War	511	(1)
King Philip's War	512	(1)
King William's War	513	(2)
Korean War	515	(4)
Labor Movement, British-American	519	(5)
Labrador	524	(2)
Lake Champlain, Battle of	526	(1)
Lake Erie, Battle of	526	(1)
Lend-Lease Act	527	(2)
Leopard/Chesapeake Affair	529	(1)
Lexington and Concord, Battles of	530	(3)
Library of Congress	533	(2)
Literary Relations, Britain-Canada	535	(5)
Literary Relations, Britain-Caribbean	540	(6)
Literary Relations, Britain-Latin America	546	(4)
Literary Relations, Britain-US	550	(5)
Lockerbie	555	(2)
London Imperial Conference	557	(1)
London Naval Conferences	558	(1)
Louisbourg	559	(1)
Lower Canada	560	(1)
Loyalism and Loyalists, Canada	561	(4)
Loyalism and Loyalists, US	565	(2)
Lundy's Lane, Battle of	567	(2)
Madoc Legend	569	(1)
Manchurian Crisis	570	(2)
Manhattan Project	572	(1)
Manitoba	573	(2)
Marshall Plan	575	(3)
Marshall Scholarships	578	(1)
Massachusetts Bay	579	(3)
Mayflower	582	(1)
Mayflower Compact	583	(1)
Medicine	584	(6)
Mercantilism	590	(4)
Methodism	594	(3)
Metis	597	(1)
Mexican-American War	598	(2)
Mexico	600	(4)
Mining	604	(5)
Modernism	609	(4)
Monroe Doctrine	613	(2)
Montreal	615	(1)
Montserrat	616	(1)
Music, Classical/Orchestral	617	(6)
Music, Popular	623	(6)
Nashoba Community	629	(1)
Nassau Pact	630	(1)
Native Americans, Carribbean and Latin America	631	(3)
Native Americans, North America	634	(5)
Navigation Acts	639	(3)
New Brunswick	642	(1)
New Harmony	643	(2)
New Orleans, Battle of	645	(2)
Newfoundland	647	(2)
Nicaragua	649	(3)
Nine Power Treaty	652	(1)
Nitrates	653	(3)
Nootka Sound Incident	656	(2)
Normandy Invasion	658	(2)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)	660	(3)
North West Company	663	(1)
Northwest Passage	664	(2)
Northwest Territories	666	(1)
Nova Scotia	667	(1)
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	668	(1)
Nuclear Weapons	669	(6)
Ontario	675	(1)
Open Door Policy	676	(1)
Oregon Boundary Dispute	677	(1)
Oxford Movement	678	(3)
Pacific Northwest	681	(1)
Pacific War	682	(3)
Palestine	685	(3)
Panama	688	(3)
Paper War	691	(1)
Paraguay	692	(1)
Paraguayan War (War of the Triple Alliance)	693	(3)
Paris Peace Conference (1919)	696	(2)
Paris, Treaty of (1763)	698	(1)
Paris, Treaty of (1783)	699	(3)
Pequot War	702	(2)
Peru	704	(2)
Philosophy and Philosophers	706	(5)
Photography	711	(4)
Pinochet Case	715	(3)
Piracy and Privateering	718	(5)
Plattsburgh, Battle of	723	(1)
Plymouth Colony	724	(3)
Poetry, Britain-Canada	727	(5)
Poetry, Britain-Caribbean	732	(2)
Poetry, Britain-US	734	(7)
Polaris Missiles	741	(1)
Pontiac's War	742	(1)
Pop Art	743	(3)
Potsdam Conference	746	(1)
Presbyterianism	747	(2)
Prince Edward Island	749	(2)
Printing	751	(4)
Protestantism and Heterodoxy	755	(3)
Psychology	758	(5)
Puerto Rico	763	(1)
Punk Music	764	(3)
Puritanism and Puritans	767	(6)
Quakerism and Quakers	773	(2)
Quartering Act	775	(1)
Quebec	776	(3)
Quebec Act	779	(1)
Quebec, Battle of	780	(1)
Quebec Conferences	781	(1)
Quebec Resolutions	782	(2)
Queen Anne's War	784	(1)
Queenston Heights, Battle of	785	(2)
Race Relations	787	(6)
Radio	793	(3)
Railroads, North America	796	(3)
Railways and Tramways, Latin America	799	(6)
Rapprochement	805	(3)
Rebellions of 1837--1838	808	(3)
Reform (Liberal and Populist)	811	(6)
Reggae	817	(2)
Report on the Affairs of British North America	819	(2)
Responsible Government, Doctrine of	821	(2)
Revivalism, Transatlantic	823	(4)
Rhodes Scholarships	827	(1)
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe	828	(3)
River Plate/Rio de la Plata	831	(3)
Romanticism	834	(3)
Royal Navy to 1900	837	(4)
Royal Navy since 1900	841	(3)
Royal Visits	844	(3)
Rubber	847	(1)
Rush-Bagot Convention	848	(2)
Russia	850	(5)
Saint Jean, Battle of	855	(1)
Saint Kitts and Nevis	856	(2)
Saint Lucia	858	(1)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	859	(3)
Salsa	862	(1)
Salvation Army	863	(2)
San Juan Archipelago	865	(1)
Saratoga, Battles of	866	(2)
Saskatchewan	868	(1)
Science and Scientists	869	(7)
Scotland	876	(5)
Second Front	881	(2)
Settlement Policies, British	883	(6)
Seven Years' War	889	(1)
Shakespeare and the Americas	890	(2)
Shenandoah	892	(1)
Skybolt Affair	893	(2)
Slave Rebellions, Caribbean	895	(4)
Slave Rebellions, North America	899	(3)
Slave Trade, Atlantic	902	(5)
Slavery, Caribbean	907	(6)
Slavery, Latin America	913	(3)
Slavery, North America	916	(3)
Spain	919	(5)
Spanish-American War	924	(2)
Special Relationship	926	(6)
Sports	932	(3)
Stamp Act	935	(1)
``Star-Spangled Banner''	936	(1)
Suez Crisis	937	(2)
Sugar	939	(2)
Summit Meetings	941	(4)
Supreme Allied Commander	945	(4)
Teheran Conference	949	(2)
Telegraphs	951	(1)
Television	952	(5)
Tennis	957	(2)
Terrorism	959	(3)
Thailand	962	(2)
Ticonderoga, Battles of	964	(1)
Titanic	965	(2)
Tobacco	967	(3)
Toronto	970	(2)
Townshend Acts	972	(1)
Trade Relations, Britain-Canada	973	(6)
Trade Relations, Britain-Caribbean	979	(2)
Trade Relations, Britain-Latin America	981	(4)
Travel Writing	985	(5)
Treaties, Britain-Canada	990	(4)
Treaties, Britain-US	994	(5)
Treaties, Multilateral	999	(4)
Trent Affair	1003	(1)
Trenton, Battle of	1004	(2)
Trinidad and Tobago	1006	(2)
Turks and Caicos	1008	(3)
Unitarianism	1011	(3)
Upper Canada	1014	(1)
Uruguay	1015	(3)
Utopianism	1018	(5)
Vancouver Island	1023	(1)
Venezuela	1024	(4)
Venezuela Boundary Dispute	1028	(2)
Venezuelan Claims Controversy	1030	(3)
Vietnam	1033	(3)
Virginia Company	1036	(3)
Wales	1039	(3)
War Brides, British	1042	(4)
War Hawks	1046	(2)
War of 1812	1048	(3)
War of Independence, US	1051	(5)
Wars of Independence, Latin America	1056	(5)
Washington Naval Conference	1061	(1)
Washington, Treaty of	1062	(2)
Webster-Ashburton Treaty	1064	(1)
West Indies Federation	1065	(1)
Westminster, Statute of	1066	(2)
Witchcraft	1068	(5)
Women's Liberation Movement	1073	(3)
Women's Rights and Suffrage	1076	(6)
World War I	1082	(5)
World War II	1087	(6)
Yalta Conference	1093	(2)
York, Battle of	1095	(1)
Yorktown, Battle of	1096	(1)
Yukon	1097	(4)
Index	1101	(56)
About the Editors	1157