On the Fringes of Diplomacy
Subtitle: Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800-1945
By: edited John Fisher and Antony Best
Contributors: Best, Antony, 1964-
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781409401193; 9781409401209
Subjects: Pressure groups; Foreign relations; Decision making; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The invisible politician : Mary Derby and the Eastern crisis / John Charmley and Jennifer Davey; title: Diplomacy and the fourth estate : the role of the press in British foreign policy / David Brown; title: "He interviews the ambassadors" : Alfred de Rothschild, high finance, and high politics in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / T.G. Otte; title: Services rendered : Arminius Vambéry and British diplomacy / Keith Hamilton; title: The double agent's tale : Vincent Kraft and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1915-18 / Antony Best; title: Writers, the clergy, and the "diplomatization" of culture : sub-structures of Anglo-American diplomacy, 1820-1914 / Melanie Hall and Erik Goldstein; title: "An eagle whose wings are not always easy to clip" : Walter Burton Harris / John Fisher; title: Gunboats, independence movements and war : three incidents involving missionaries on the fringes of diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Hamish Ion; title: The cultural diplomacy of Sir James Rennell Rodd / Saho Matsumoto-Best; title: Diplomatic light and shade : Sir Eric Phipps and Anglo-French relations, 1922-1928 / Gaynor Johnson; title: "An excellent conning-tower" : John Buchan on the fringes of diplomacy / Keith Neilson; title: "Miserably kept running in low gear" : Lord Lloyd at the periphery of politics and diplomacy, 1930 to 1940 / Louise Atherton.