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Description for The Diplomats' World
Hardcover. This volume presents nineteenth-century diplomacy as both a real world experience and a structural element in international relations. All sixteen essays share an interest in diplomatic culture and its relevance to official and sometimes not so official interstate relations from the Congress of Vienna to the outbreak of the First World War. Editor(s): Mosslang, Markus; Riotte, Torsten. Series: Studies of the German Historical Institute, London. Num Pages: 486 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBJD1; HBLL; JPSD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 32. Weight in Grams: 719.
This volume explores the history of nineteenth-century diplomacy and in a new and innovative way. Drawing on the diplomats' many and varied encounters between their own individual and professional circles and the 'wider world', this study discusses diplomacy as a part of the cultural history of politics. While many modern works on foreign affairs marginalize the nature of diplomatic practice, this volume links form and content, presenting diplomacy as both a real world experience and a structural element in international relations. All sixteen essays share a common interest in the interdependencies between individual personalities, experiences, and structural context and ... Read more
This volume explores the history of nineteenth-century diplomacy and in a new and innovative way. Drawing on the diplomats' many and varied encounters between their own individual and professional circles and the 'wider world', this study discusses diplomacy as a part of the cultural history of politics. While many modern works on foreign affairs marginalize the nature of diplomatic practice, this volume links form and content, presenting diplomacy as both a real world experience and a structural element in international relations. All sixteen essays share a common interest in the interdependencies between individual personalities, experiences, and structural context and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
486
Condition
New
Series
Studies of the German Historical Institute, London
Number of Pages
486
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199548675
SKU
V9780199548675
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About Unknown
Markus Mösslang is a fellow at the German Historical Institute London and editor of the multi-volume edition British Envoys to Germany. He specializes in the study of Anglo-German relations, the history of diplomacy, and nineteenth-century German and British history. Previously he was a research assistant at the University of Munich. ; Torsten Riotte was educated at the universities of Cologne ... Read more
Reviews for The Diplomats' World
...studded with gems...excellent.
H-Net Reviews
Superbly researched and so rife with new material...[a] spectacular building block of scholarship.
Alice-Catherine Carls, The Historian
a collection that all scholars of nineteenth-century international history would do well to consult
F. R. Bridge, International History Review
fascinating reading for anyone interested in international history ... I thoroughly recommend ... Read more
H-Net Reviews
Superbly researched and so rife with new material...[a] spectacular building block of scholarship.
Alice-Catherine Carls, The Historian
a collection that all scholars of nineteenth-century international history would do well to consult
F. R. Bridge, International History Review
fascinating reading for anyone interested in international history ... I thoroughly recommend ... Read more