''An ambitious narrative... in rich detail... Burk enlightens
her grand narrative with three interludes of cultural history...
Old World, New World is still the most reliable, lucidly narrated
and generous history of the mutual entanglement of Britain and
America we are likely to have for some time. It is a story of two
worlds.'' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ''Balanced, intelligent,
insightful and sometimes funny, Burk''s book is sure to be regarded
as the definitive work on the subject'' Dominic
內容簡介：
In OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD Kathleen Burk sets out to tell the
story of Britain and America across four hundred years, from
colonisation to Iraq. There are two strands to this story. The
first is the grand narrative that takes in the British colonisation
of America and the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil
War and the global conflicts of the twentieth century. This is the
story of America''s inevitable eclipse of its former colonial master
as a Great Power, and of the enmities and sympathies, the
confusions and understandings born along the way. The second strand
is quieter but no less fascinating. Displaying a breathtaking
command of her subject, Burk examines the relations between the two
countries in many other spheres: economic, religious, cultural,
social, even romantic. These two strands taken together make Old
World, New World an unprecedented achievement. No one could hope to
write the definitive story of these two countries and their
relationship, but few will come closer than Kathleen Burk has in
this brilliant book.
關於作者：
Kathy Burk is Professor of Modern History at University
College London and a regular columnist and radio panelist. She is
the author of several distinguished books on the US and its
interventions in the rest of the world, and a definitive biography
of A. J. P. Taylor, the famous media historian.
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