British diplomacy and the descent into chaos
Subtitle: the career of Jack Garnett, 1902-19
By: John Fisher
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780230348974
Subjects: Diplomats; British Diplomatic and consular service; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Constantinople: "a very wonderful place"; title: Like a plant uprooted: life in Peking; title: "People who squeeze and people who may be squeezed": across Mongolia, 1908; title: Bucharest and St Petersburg; title: Teheran 1911-14 : "into the vortex"; title: London, Sophia and Athens, and the "episode of the floating bag"; title: Tangier : "a confusion of the East and the West"; title: A "hardly used genus": First Secretary in Buenos Aires; title: A climacteric.