04025nam 2200697 a 450 991078178820332120231206231134.01-315-59885-X1-317-08578-71-317-08577-91-283-23514-597866132351451-4094-0120-0(CKB)2550000000045607(EBL)762254(OCoLC)756484125(SSID)ssj0000544448(PQKBManifestationID)12225635(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000544448(PQKBWorkID)10535863(PQKB)11018789(Au-PeEL)EBL762254(CaPaEBR)ebr10493861(CaONFJC)MIL924933(Au-PeEL)EBL5293769(CaONFJC)MIL323514(OCoLC)759158856(MiAaPQ)EBC762254(MiAaPQ)EBC5293769(EXLCZ)99255000000004560720110302d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOn the fringes of diplomacy[electronic resource] influences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945 /edited by John Fisher and Antony BestBurlington, Vt. Ashgate20111 online resource (321 p.)On cover: Ashgate e-book.1-4094-0119-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Pressure groupsGreat BritainHistory19th centuryPressure groupsGreat BritainHistory20th centuryGreat BritainForeign relations19th centuryDecision makingGreat BritainForeign relations1901-1936Decision makingGreat BritainForeign relations1936-1945Decision makingPressure groupsHistoryPressure groupsHistory327.41009/034Fisher John1968-1521319Best Antony1964-1521320MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781788203321On the fringes of diplomacy3760380UNINA