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Meddling In Middle Europe: Britain And The 'Lands Between' 1919-1925
Miklos Lojkó
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Description for Meddling In Middle Europe: Britain And The 'Lands Between' 1919-1925
hardcover. Addresses the history of British policy towards Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland following the creation of nation states in Central Europe at the end of the First World War. Lojko argues that the absence of trust in the political settlement and the discrediting of the traditional channels of diplomacy resulted in British influence in the region. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVH; 1DVKC; 1DVP; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 685.
This work addresses the much-ignored history of British policy towards Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland following the creation of nation states in Central Europe at the end of the First World War. Lojkó convincingly argues that the absence of trust in the new political settlement and the discrediting of the traditional channels of diplomacy resulted in British influence in the region, being exerted mainly in the form of commercial and financial undertakings. While not always successful, the emergence of this new policy affected the development of diplomatic ties with these new nations.Yet no lasting diplomatic leverage resulted from this British involvement, ... Read more
This work addresses the much-ignored history of British policy towards Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland following the creation of nation states in Central Europe at the end of the First World War. Lojkó convincingly argues that the absence of trust in the new political settlement and the discrediting of the traditional channels of diplomacy resulted in British influence in the region, being exerted mainly in the form of commercial and financial undertakings. While not always successful, the emergence of this new policy affected the development of diplomatic ties with these new nations.Yet no lasting diplomatic leverage resulted from this British involvement, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Central European University Press Hungary
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9789637326370
SKU
V9789637326370
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About Miklos Lojkó
Miklós Lojkó is a Ph.D graduate of the University of Cambridge, and is currently Senior Lecturer at the School of English and American Studies of Eötvös Loránd University as well as Academic Writing Instructor at the Department of History of the Central European University.
Reviews for Meddling In Middle Europe: Britain And The 'Lands Between' 1919-1925
"It is well known that the victorious peacemakers of Paris left numerous issues unresolved in 1919. This substantive study by Miklós Lojkó offers a case in point. Lojkó mined British public and private archival collections to paint an elegant portrait of consummate British diplomacy in the first half of the 1920s. The chapters on financial diplomacy are diplomatic history at ... Read more