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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456696003321

Titolo

On the fringes of diplomacy [[electronic resource] ] : influences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945 / / edited by John Fisher and Antony Best

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, 2011

ISBN

1-317-08578-7

1-317-08577-9

1-283-23514-5

9786613235145

1-4094-0120-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FisherJohn <1968->

BestAntony <1964->

Disciplina

327.41009/034

Soggetti

Pressure groups - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Pressure groups - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Great Britain Foreign relations 19th century Decision making

Great Britain Foreign relations 1901-1936 Decision making

Great Britain Foreign relations 1936-1945 Decision making

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

On cover: Ashgate e-book.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.