LEADER 04025nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910781788203321 005 20231206231134.0 010 $a1-315-59885-X 010 $a1-317-08578-7 010 $a1-317-08577-9 010 $a1-283-23514-5 010 $a9786613235145 010 $a1-4094-0120-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000000045607 035 $a(EBL)762254 035 $a(OCoLC)756484125 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000544448 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12225635 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000544448 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10535863 035 $a(PQKB)11018789 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL762254 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10493861 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL924933 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5293769 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL323514 035 $a(OCoLC)759158856 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC762254 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5293769 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000045607 100 $a20110302d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aOn the fringes of diplomacy$b[electronic resource] $einfluences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945 /$fedited by John Fisher and Antony Best 210 $aBurlington, Vt. $cAshgate$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aOn cover: Ashgate e-book. 311 $a1-4094-0119-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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 Vambe?ry 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aPressure groups$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPressure groups$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$y19th century$xDecision making 607 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$y1901-1936$xDecision making 607 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$y1936-1945$xDecision making 615 0$aPressure groups$xHistory 615 0$aPressure groups$xHistory 676 $a327.41009/034 701 $aFisher$b John$f1968-$01521319 701 $aBest$b Antony$f1964-$01521320 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781788203321 996 $aOn the fringes of diplomacy$93760380 997 $aUNINA