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<p><p>In <I>Old World, New World</I>, recently published to wide acclaim in hardcover, Kathleen Burk sets out to tell the whole story of America and Great Britain for the first time. Burk is a fourth-generation Californian and a distinguished professor of history in London, and in this book she draws on her unrivaled knowledge of both countries to explore the totality of the relationship&#151;the politics, economics, culture, and society&#151;beginning with the first British settlement in the United States, at Jamestown, and continuing through our current alliance in Iraq and Afghanistan. The result is a lively and unprecedented book that is being hailed by critics and historians on both sides of the Atlantic as a landmark work. At once sweeping in scope and meticulous in detail, <I>Old World, New World</I> is a vivid, absorbing, and surprising story of one of the longest and most fascinating international relationships in modern history.<p></p> <h3>Library Journal</h3> <p><P>The stories of the United States and Great Britain are inexorably linked beyond the Colonial ties and shared language, a connection and relationship that form the basis of this original book by Burk (history,

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Author
Burk, Kathleen
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780802144294
Category
history
Subjects
Fiction, Language Learning, History
Rating
3.43 / 5 (3 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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