1. Witness the excellent studies by Charles S. Campbell, From Revolution to Rapprochement: The United States and Great Britain, 1783–1900 (New York: Wiley, 1974)
2. Bradford Perkins, The First Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1795–1805 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955);
3. Among the more important assessments of the ‘special relationship’, in order of increasing scepticism, are: the essays in Wm. Roger Louis and Hedley Bull (eds), The ‘Special Relationship’ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986);
4. David Reynolds, ‘A “Special Relationship”? America, Britain and the International Order since the Second World War’, International Affairs, 62, 1 (Winter 1985–86), 1–20;
5. Alex Danchev, On Specialness: Essays in Anglo-American Relations (New York: St Martin’s Press — now Palgrave, 1998);