“Accessible to non-specialists yet appealing to an academic audience, this text could prove suitable for coffee shops or classrooms.”
—Toynbee Prize Foundation
"Made in Britain valuably contributes to the historiography of American foreign relations, the Civil War, and capitalism. Concise and well organized, this book encourages the study of a more global emigrant history because, as Tuffnell correctly suggests, ‘it took the world to produce the nation’."
—The Journal of American History
"Made in Britain is a deeply researched, analytically rich, and highly original contribution to our understanding of economic, political, and social relationships cultivated by Americans in Great Britain during the nineteenth-century. . . . I cannot recommend it strongly enough."
—Diplomatic History
"Not only will students and scholars of British history profit by reading this book, but readers with general intellectual interests will likely become fascinated with both the specific topics Stansky discusses and the workings of a distinguished historian’s lively approach to his subject."
—Journal of British Studies
"This fascinating book offers a gripping account of how a former colony and an ascendant empire came to forge an enduring transimperial camaraderie. An intimate look at Americans living in England—from tourists to freed and fugitive slaves to diplomats—during the nineteenth century,
Made in Britain weaves together such a large history out of smaller encounters from the high seas to high-class London clubs. In the decades after 1776, independence became interdependence!"—Daniel E. Bender, author of
American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry "
Made in Britain is a wonderful testament to the virtues of transnational history. Readers interested in American foreign relations, the history of capitalism, and the Atlantic world all stand to benefit from Stephen Tuffnell's sophisticated and insightful book."—Brian Rouleau, author of
With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire "Drawing on an impressive array of unusually strong primary sources, Tuffnell offers a brilliant analytical narrative that illuminates American cultural, social, economic, and political history. It also offers an exceptionally rich history of foreign relations, full of sectional and partisan complexity and busy with a broad cast of characters. It is the kind of work that makes one exclaim, why didn't someone think to do this before?!"—Matthew Mason, author of
Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic "Emigration and expatriation from the United States have long been topics in need of a masterful historical synthesis. For the Anglo-American case in the nineteenth century, the phenomenon finds its ideal interpreter in Stephen Tuffnell. Written with supreme command of primary and secondary materials, Tuffnell's
Made in Britain takes a difficult and fragmented subject. Focusing on American economic and social exchanges, Tuffnell gives the material shape and substance through the dialogue of emigrant American communities in Britain and their discussions of national identity and transnational connection. He shows how emigrants and expatriates served as transatlantic 'connectors' of the two nations and yet also contributed to the forging of U.S. nationalism. A triumph of a book."—Ian Tyrrell, author of
Reforming the World: The Creation of America’s
Moral Empire
