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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Fisher, John, 1968-; Best, Antony, 1964-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiv, 306 p.
• Notes: On cover: Ashgate e-book.

Table of 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 Vambery 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.