| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) |
| 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 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 |
| Summary |
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 fringes of the diplomatic world, is recognised as having exerted critical influence on key decisions and policies. This volume gives further impetus to this revelation, honing in on the fringes of British diplomacy through a selection of case studies of individuals who were able to influence polic |
| Notes |
On cover: Ashgate e-book |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pressure groups -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
|
|
Pressure groups -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
|
|
Pressure groups
|
| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 19th century -- Decision making
|
|
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1901-1936 -- Decision making
|
|
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1936-1945 -- Decision making
|
| Subject |
Great Britain
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
|
|
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Fisher, John, 1968-
|
|
Best, Antony, 1964-
|
| LC no. |
2011005817 |
| ISBN |
9781409401209 |
|
1409401200 |
|
1409401197 |
|
9781409401193 |
|
1317085787 |
|
9781317085782 |
|
1317085779 |
|
9781317085775 |
|
1283235145 |
|
9781283235143 |
|
9786613235145 |
|
6613235148 |
|
