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Author Fisher, John

Title On the Fringes of Diplomacy : Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800-1945
Published Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2011

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Description 1 online resource (321 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Invisible Politician: Mary Derby and the Eastern Crisis; 2 Diplomacy and the Fourth Estate: The Role of the Press in British Foreign Policy in the Age of Palmerston; 5 The Double Agent's Tale: Vincent Kraft and Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1915-1918; 6 Writers, the Clergy, and the 'Diplomatisation of Culture': Sub-Structures of Anglo-American Diplomacy, 1820-1914; 7 'An Eagle Whose Wings Are Not Always Easy to Clip': Walter Burton Harris
8 Gunboats, Independence Movements and War: Three Incidents Involving Missionaries on the Fringes of Diplomacy in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries9 The Cultural Diplomacy of Sir James Rennell Rodd; 10 'Diplomatic Light and Shade': Sir Eric Phipps and Anglo-French Relations 1922-1928; 11 'An Excellent Conning-Tower': John Buchan on the Fringes of Diplomacy; 12 'Miserably Kept Running In Low Gear': Lord Lloyd at the Periphery of Politics and Diplomacy, 1930-1940; Index
Summary This volume gives further impetus to the recent trend of looking beyond the major figures of diplomats and foreign secretaries when seeking to understand of British foreign policy and diplomacy during the height of empire. By focusing on the legion of influential but less well-known figures on the fringes of diplomatic circles, it reveals how it is possible to observe the ways that such individuals, often overlooked by historians, can affect government decisions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Pressure groups -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Pressure groups -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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 History
Form Electronic book
Author Best, Antony
ISBN 9781409401209
1409401200