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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fisher, John, 1968-

Best, Antony, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pressure groups.

History.

International relations.

Decision making.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--19th century--Decision making.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1901-1936--Decision making.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1936-1945--Decision making.

Pressure groups--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Pressure groups--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 306 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409401193

1409401197

9781409401209

1409401200

OCLC:

705568026