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Dissolving tensions rapprochement and resolution in British-American-Canadian relations in the Treaty of Washington era, 1865-1914

Dissolving Tensions dismisses the long-held argument that a British- American rapprochement did not occur until the mid-1890s. Instead, author Phillip E. Myers shows that the rapprochement was distinct prior to the Civil War, became more distinctive during the conflict, and continued to take shape afterward. Myers illustrates clearly that the Treaty of Washington of 1871 was a defining ingredient in resolving British-American-Canadian tensions and sent the rapprochement into a new period of stability and dispute resolution during the three decades before World War I. Drawing upon a wide variet.

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