| Description |
xiv, 306 p. |
| Note |
On cover: Ashgate e-book. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 Vambery 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Pressure groups -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Pressure groups -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 19th century -- Decision making.
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1901-1936 -- Decision making.
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1936-1945 -- Decision making.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fisher, John, 1968-
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Best, Antony, 1964-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781409401193 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9781409401209 (electronic bk.) |
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