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Made in Britain
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08 September 2020

Blending the histories of foreign relations, capitalism, nation-formation, and transnational connection, Stephen Tuffnell compellingly demonstrates that the United States’ struggle toward independent nationhood was entangled at every step with the world’s most powerful empire of the time. With deep research and vivid detail, Made in Britain uncovers this hidden story and presents a bold new perspective on nineteenth-century trans-Atlantic relations.
"Tuffnell’s study is fascinating as it stands. It is no criticism to say that it is fertile soil for future work that could extend the coverage of the expatriate community into culture and society."
“By focusing on elite American migrant communities within Britain, Stephen Tuffnell’s Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America offers an innovative complement to the existing scholarship on the development of U.S. national identity.”
“Accessible to non-specialists yet appealing to an academic audience, this text could prove suitable for coffee shops or classrooms.”
"Made in Britain valuably contributes to the historiography of American foreign relations, the Civil War, and capitalism. Concise and well organized, this book encourages the study of a more global emigrant history because, as Tuffnell correctly suggests, ‘it took the world to produce the nation’."
"Made in Britain is a deeply researched, analytically rich, and highly original contribution to our understanding of economic, political, and social relationships cultivated by Americans in Great Britain during the nineteenth-century. . . . I cannot recommend it strongly enough."
"Not only will students and scholars of British history profit by reading this book, but readers with general intellectual interests will likely become fascinated with both the specific topics Stansky discusses and the workings of a distinguished historian’s lively approach to his subject."
Acknowledgments
Introduction: American Invaders
1. Independence and Interdependence
2. Representative Americans
3. The Emigrants' War
4. Empire, Philanthropy, Public Diplomacy
5. American Invasions
Epilogue: Emigrants, Americanizers, Colonizers
Notes
Bibliography
Index