This lecture explores the shared terrain between the new international history and the history of emotions. In the summer and fall of 1942, American foreign correspondents played a key role in sparking a furore over British rule in India. Drawing on their own first-hand reporting from India, they depicted the British Empire as retrograde and abusive, a dangerous, destabilizing force and a threat to the post-war peace. Diagnosing what it called 'a new landslide of anti-British feeling', the British Ministry of Information spearheaded the formation of high-level, interdepartmental, secret committee charged with the task of figuring out how to reconcile Americans to the British Empire. What they found was that the job itself was impossible: a significant proportion of Americans 'whose views, they concluded, were driven in large measure by emotion' would not under any circumstances soften their opinions about the British Empire.

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2017 年本·皮姆洛特纪念讲座：地缘政治是个人的：1930 年代和 1940 年代的印度、英国和美国的外国记者

本次讲座探讨了新国际史和情感史之间的共同领域。1942 年夏秋两季，美国驻外记者在引发对英国在印度统治的愤怒中发挥了关键作用。他们根据自己在印度的第一手报道，将大英帝国描述为逆行和虐待，是一支危险的、破坏稳定的力量，是对战后和平的威胁。在诊断出所谓的“新一轮反英情绪滑坡”后，英国信息部带头组建了高级别、跨部门的秘密委员会，负责研究如何让美国人与大英帝国和解。他们发现这份工作本身是不可能的：很大一部分美国人“他们的观点，他们得出结论，