The work is strengthened by both an excellent introduction and an extensive, topically arranged bibliography....Those familiar with Scarecrow Press's Historical Dictionary series know the extraordinary level of scholarship behind the works, and the most recent addition is no exception. Recommended for academic libraries and large public libraries.

Booklist

This dictionary includes a bibliography, chronology, and lists of key ministers. The author's 27-page introduction is a fine piece of scholarship in its own right.

Choice Reviews

In general we get a good mixture of persons, treaties, conferences, laws, battles, policies and great events. Some entries cannot be categorized like the item on War Brides. This is a workmanlike book, which has its place in Anglo-American studies. It is very well made.

Reference Reviews

The author is well qualified and has written many things on this up and down relationship between two nations.

American Reference Books Annual

Ellis is well placed to compare and contrast the diplomatic goings-on between England and America, having been born and raised in Great Britain and obtained a master's degree from the University of Rhode Island. As this is a dictionary, entries define rather than explain, and most are concise. As might be expected, the emphasis is on the political and economic links between the two nations, but cultural exchanges, such as the Beatles' celebrated 1964 appearance on these shores, are given their due. Clear and straightforward, this compact volume is generally excellent for its intended purpose of ready reference.

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