The Pilgrims Society challenges accounts that treat Anglo-American cooperation as automatic. Britain and the United States still had disputes, but their interests rarely diverged enough to make war rational after 1895. Public diplomacy supplied the mechanism: diplomats, officials, and cultural figures repeatedly brought the two societies into conversation. Work across cultural as well as governmental channels helped make disagreements manageable and created the relationship later histories often take for granted.
Chapter · 17:49-22:29
The Pilgrims Society and Anglo-American public diplomacy
A book discussion explains how elite societies, cultural exchange, and sustained conversation helped keep Anglo-American rivalry below the threshold of war after 1895.