LEADER 04235oam 2200793 a 450 001 9910973692503321 005 20030724192126.0 010 $a9798400618055 010 $a9786610373895 010 $a9781280373893 010 $a128037389X 010 $a9780313073656 010 $a0313073651 010 $a9780313046353 010 $a0313046352 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400618055 035 $a(CKB)1000000000000922 035 $a(OCoLC)58788803 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10004877 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000110986 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11145584 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110986 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10075005 035 $a(PQKB)10690252 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3000418 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10004877 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL37389 035 $a(OCoLC)744965164 035 $a(OCoLC)46872364 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400618055BC 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3000418 035 $a(Perlego)4203021 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000000922 100 $a20010501e20022024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeyond pain $ethe role of pleasure and culture in the making of foreign affairs /$fThomas A. Breslin 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger,$d2002. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (x, 203 pages) 225 1 $aPraeger studies on ethnic and national identities in politics,$x1527-9901 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780275974305 311 08$a0275974308 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-192) and index. 327 $aCover -- BEYOND PAIN -- Contents -- Preface -- NOTE -- 1 The Five Baits -- NOTES -- 2 Ten Thousand Persian Archers -- NOTES -- 3 Roman Virgins and Vandals -- NOTES -- 4 The Glittering Diplomacy of Byzantium -- NOTES -- 5 The Byzantine Doge and the Parsimonious Prince -- NOTES -- 6 Lording It over the Britons: England's Anglo-Norman Empire -- NOTES -- 7 The British Empire: Doomed in the Fleshpots of Paris -- NOTES -- 8 Whiskey versus Rum: The Roots of America's Bicultural Foreign Policy -- NOTES -- 9 Sweet and Sour: China Deals with the Modern West -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS -- PUBLISHED MATERIALS -- Index -- About the Author. 330 8 $aBreslin demonstrates that, for two millennia, states in East Asia, Europe, and America have successfully used pleasure to protect themselves and advance their interests, at a small fraction of the cost of militarized policies. Indeed, the Chinese demonstrated that pleasure-based policies primed a stream of highly profitable foreign trade and bolstered the state. Pleasure was feared because it was effective as both an offensive and defensive strategy. The colleens of Ireland and the bibis of India showed how inexorably effective pleasure could be in confounding militarily stronger invaders. In contrast, resorting to violence and pain generally undermined aggressive states. Cultural factors have shaped the choice of pleasures used. Food-centered China has used food, as well as sex and tourism, as tools in its foreign relations. Rome used wine; Byzantium, precious metals, banquets, and public spectacles; Venice, sex, money, and art; England, money and education. America has used sex, money, education, music, and tourism. Breslin's provocative text is based on a wide reading of secondary sources and some primary sources as well as a quarter century of teaching the history of foreign relations. 410 0$aPraeger studies on ethnic and national identities in politics. 606 $aInternational relations and culture 606 $aDiplomacy 606 $aPleasure 606 $aPain 615 0$aInternational relations and culture. 615 0$aDiplomacy. 615 0$aPleasure. 615 0$aPain. 676 $a327.1/01 700 $aBreslin$b Thomas A$01808573 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973692503321 996 $aBeyond pain$94358889 997 $aUNINA