Made in Britain Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America
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Stephen Tuffnell is Associate Professor of Modern US History at St. Peter's College, Oxford University. He is coeditor, with Dr. Benjamin Mountford, of A Global History of Gold Rushes."Stephen Tuffnell’s <i>Made in Britain </i>is a thorough, original and engaging account of the part played by American expats in the creation of transatlantic diplomacy in post-independence 19th-century Britain. The book––peppered with specific case studies, useful statistics and factual analyses, as well as compelling anecdotes––is both an enjoyable and instructive read."
Cercles
<p>"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."</p>
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
<p>“By focusing on elite American migrant communities within Britain, Stephen Tuffnell’s <i>Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America</i> offers an innovative complement to the existing scholarship on the development of U.S. national identity.”</p>
American Nineteenth Century History
"Tuffnell has crafted a fantastic, well-researched, and highly readable volume on the interconnectedness of the Atlantic world in the nineteenth century. It highlights the ongoing postcolonial relationship between Britain and America and contributes to our understanding of the role of emigration and emigrant communities in shaping foreign relations."
H-Net
<p>“Accessible to non-specialists yet appealing to an academic audience, this text could prove suitable for coffee shops or classrooms.”</p>
Toynbee Prize Foundation
<p>"<i>Made in Britain</i> 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’."</p>
The Journal of American History
<p>"<i>Made in Britain</i> 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."</p>
Diplomatic History
<p>"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."</p><br />
Journal of British Studies
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.
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
"Made in Britain is a wonderful testament to the virtues of transnational history. Readers interested in American foreign relations, the history of capitalism, and the Atlantic world all stand to benefit from Stephen Tuffnell's sophisticated and insightful book."—Brian Rouleau, author of With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire
"Drawing on an impressive array of unusually strong primary sources, Tuffnell offers a brilliant analytical narrative that illuminates American cultural, social, economic, and political history. It also offers an exceptionally rich history of foreign relations, full of sectional and partisan complexity and busy with a broad cast of characters. It is the kind of work that makes one exclaim, why didn't someone think to do this before?!"—Matthew Mason, author of Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic
"Emigration and expatriation from the United States have long been topics in need of a masterful historical synthesis. For the Anglo-American case in the nineteenth century, the phenomenon finds its ideal interpreter in Stephen Tuffnell. Written with supreme command of primary and secondary materials, Tuffnell's Made in Britain takes a difficult and fragmented subject. Focusing on American economic and social exchanges, Tuffnell gives the material shape and substance through the dialogue of emigrant American communities in Britain and their discussions of national identity and transnational connection. He shows how emigrants and expatriates served as transatlantic 'connectors' of the two nations and yet also contributed to the forging of U.S. nationalism. A triumph of a book."—Ian Tyrrell, author of Reforming the World: The Creation of America’s Moral Empire