Format:
1 online resource (321 pages)
ISBN:
9781409401209
Content:
In recent decades the study of British foreign policy and diplomacy has broadened in focus. No longer is it enough for historians to look at the actions of the elite figures - diplomats and foreign secretaries - in isolation; increasingly the role of their advisers and subordinates, and those on the fringes of the diplomatic world, is recognised as having exerted critical influence on key decisions and policies. This volume gives further impetus to this revelation, honing in on the fringes of British diplomacy through a selection of case studies of individuals who were able to influence policy. By contextualising each study, the volume explores the wider circles in which these individuals moved, exploring the broader issues affecting the processes of foreign policy. Not the least of these is the issue of official mindsets and of networks of influence in Britain and overseas, inculcated, for example, in the leading public schools, at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and in gentlemen's clubs in London's West End. As such the volume contributes to the growing literature on human agency as well as mentalité studies in the history of international relations. Moreover it also highlights related themes which have been insufficiently studied by international historians, for example, the influence that outside groups such as missionaries and the press had on the shaping of foreign policy and the role that strategy, intelligence and the experience of war played in the diplomatic process. Through such an approach the workings of British diplomacy during the high-tide of empire is revealed in new and intriguing ways.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Invisible Politician: Mary Derby and the Eastern Crisis -- 2 Diplomacy and the Fourth Estate: The Role of the Press in British Foreign Policy in the Age of Palmerston -- 3 'He Interviews the Ambassadors': Alfred de Rothschild, High Finance and High Politics in Victorian and Edwardian Britain -- 4 Services Rendered: Arminius Vambéry and British Diplomacy -- 5 The Double Agent's Tale: Vincent Kraft and Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1915-1918 -- 6 Writers, the Clergy, and the 'Diplomatisation of Culture': Sub-Structures of Anglo-American Diplomacy, 1820-1914 -- 7 'An Eagle Whose Wings Are Not Always Easy to Clip': Walter Burton Harris -- 8 Gunboats, Independence Movements and War: Three Incidents Involving Missionaries on the Fringes of Diplomacy in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 9 The Cultural Diplomacy of Sir James Rennell Rodd -- 10 'Diplomatic Light and Shade': Sir Eric Phipps and Anglo-French Relations 1922-1928 -- 11 'An Excellent Conning-Tower': John Buchan on the Fringes of Diplomacy -- 12 'Miserably Kept Running In Low Gear': Lord Lloyd at the Periphery of Politics and Diplomacy, 1930-1940 -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409401193
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409401193
Language:
English
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