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On the fringes of diplomacy : influences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945 /

In recent decades the study of British foreign policy and diplomacy has broadened in focus. No longer is it enough for historians to look at the actions of the elite figures - diplomats and foreign secretaries - in isolation; increasingly the role of their advisers and subordinates, and those on the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fisher, John, 1968-, Best, Antony, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The invisible politician : Mary Derby and the Eastern crisis / John Charmley and Jennifer Davey
  • Diplomacy and the fourth estate : the role of the press in British foreign policy / David Brown
  • "He interviews the ambassadors" : Alfred de Rothschild, high finance, and high politics in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / T.G. Otte
  • Services rendered : Arminius Vambéry and British diplomacy / Keith Hamilton
  • The double agent's tale : Vincent Kraft and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1915-18 / Antony Best
  • Writers, the clergy, and the "diplomatization" of culture : sub-structures of Anglo-American diplomacy, 1820-1914 / Melanie Hall and Erik Goldstein
  • "An eagle whose wings are not always easy to clip" : Walter Burton Harris / John Fisher
  • Gunboats, independence movements and war : three incidents involving missionaries on the fringes of diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Hamish Ion
  • The cultural diplomacy of Sir James Rennell Rodd / Saho Matsumoto-Best
  • Diplomatic light and shade : Sir Eric Phipps and Anglo-French relations, 1922-1928 / Gaynor Johnson
  • "An excellent conning-tower" : John Buchan on the fringes of diplomacy / Keith Neilson
  • "Miserably kept running in low gear" : Lord Lloyd at the periphery of politics and diplomacy, 1930 to 1940 / Louise Atherton.