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'America in Britain's place?': Anglo-American relations and the Middle East in the aftermath of the Suez crisis (2012)
Journal Article
Smith, S. C. (2012). 'America in Britain's place?': Anglo-American relations and the Middle East in the aftermath of the Suez crisis. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 10(3), 252-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794012.2012.698566

Much historical scholarship has depicted Suez as a watershed not merely in British imperial history, but also in Anglo-American relations, marking a decisive shift away from empire and the assumption of British burdens in the Middle East by the USA.... Read More about 'America in Britain's place?': Anglo-American relations and the Middle East in the aftermath of the Suez crisis.

Ending Empire in the Middle East: Britain, the United States and Post-war decolonization, 1945-1973 (2012)
Book
Smith, S. C. (2012). Ending Empire in the Middle East: Britain, the United States and Post-war decolonization, 1945-1973. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203143728

This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Based on original research into bot... Read More about Ending Empire in the Middle East: Britain, the United States and Post-war decolonization, 1945-1973.