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Charles Whitworth : diplomat in the age of Peter the Great / Janet M. Hartley.

Van Pelt Library DA483.W48 H37 2002
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hartley, Janet M.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Whitworth, Charles Whitworth, Baron, 1675-1725.
Whitworth, Charles Whitworth.
British.
History.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--1689-1702.
Great Britain.
International relations.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--Russia.
Russia.
Russia--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
Russia--Foreign relations--1689-1725.
Diplomats--Great Britain--Biography.
Diplomats.
Russia--History--Peter I, 1689-1725.
British--Russia--History.
Whitworth, Charles.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--18th century.
Great Britain--History--1689-1714.
Great Britain--History--George I, 1714-1727.
Local Subjects:
Whitworth, Charles.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--18th century.
Great Britain--History--1689-1714.
Great Britain--History--George I, 1714-1727.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xvi, 242 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]
Contents:
1 Charles Whitworth: A Diplomatic Career 1
2 The German Lands: Clerk, Envoy and Prisoner (1696-1704) 14
3 Russia: Trade, Tobacco and Machine-breaking (1705-1712) 33
4 Russia: The First Anglo-Russian Diplomatic Crisis (1705-1712) 59
5 Whitworth on Russia in a Period of Change 88
6 Britain, the Empire, and Prussia: Negotiations South and North (1713-1717) 105
7 The United Provinces: The Quadruple Alliance (1717-1719) 126
8 Prussia: War and Peace in the North (1719-1722) 152
9 Cambrai: Not with a Bang but a Whimper (1722-1725) 180
Epilogue: 1725 201
Appendix Extracts from the 'Short Journal of Mr Whitworths Journey from Mosco to London' 204.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-229) and index.
ISBN:
0754604802
OCLC:
48871215

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