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Author: Tracey A. Sowerby (University of Oxford, UK) ,
Jan Hennings (Sabanci University, Turkey)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9781138650633
ISBN 10: 1138650633
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 May 2017
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Precisely titled, this timely volume focuses on the practices of negotiation, on process more than outcome, and provides a valuable introduction to the approaches that now guide researchers. (...) Collections of essays are notoriously a mixed bag, but this impressive volume is a superior example of the genre. (...) The editors' model introduction provides an excellent context for the specialized articles that follow. It deserves the widest readership. - Hamish Scott, Jesus College, University of Oxford
""Precisely titled, this timely volume focuses on the practices of negotiation, on process more than outcome, and provides a valuable introduction to the approaches that now guide researchers. (...) Collections of essays are notoriously a mixed bag, but this impressive volume is a superior example of the genre. (...) The editors’ model introduction provides an excellent context for the specialized articles that follow. It deserves the widest readership."" - Hamish Scott, Jesus College, University of Oxford""This collection edited by Tracey A. Sowerby and Jan Hennings constitutes an important contribution to new diplomatic history. (...) The intersection between new diplomatic history and the history of material culture, discussed in several chapters, is no doubt one of the most innovative aspects of the volume and one that is likely to inspire future research. (...) An innovative, thought-provoking and deeply researched collection which will be useful reading not only for scholars of early modern diplomacy but for anyone interested in rethinking the history of international relations beyond the traditional state-centred and Eurocentric paradigms."" - Diego Pirillo, University of California, USA ""This book is an important example of the renewal of the history of international relations, the reading of which is necessary to grasp the political structures of the first European modernity, including Russia.""- Marie-Karine Schaub, UPEC-CRHEC ""All in all this collection offers further contributions to a history of diplomatic practice that does not take the sovereign state diplomacy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as the standard, as Christian Windler emphasizes in his closing remarks. The contributions reveal how strongly pre-modern diplomacy was characterised by courtly forms and values and – this is an especially important aspect of the volume – certainly by no m
Precisely titled, this timely volume focuses on the practices of negotiation, on process more than outcome, and provides a valuable introduction to the approaches that now guide researchers. (...) Collections of essays are notoriously a mixed bag, but this impressive volume is a superior example of the genre. (...) The editors' model introduction provides an excellent context for the specialized articles that follow. It deserves the widest readership. - Hamish Scott, Jesus College, University of Oxford This collection edited by Tracey A. Sowerby and Jan Hennings constitutes an important contribution to new diplomatic history. (...) The intersection between new diplomatic history and the history of material culture, discussed in several chapters, is no doubt one of the most innovative aspects of the volume and one that is likely to inspire future research. (...) An innovative, thought-provoking and deeply researched collection which will be useful reading not only for scholars of early modern diplomacy but for anyone interested in rethinking the history of international relations beyond the traditional state-centred and Eurocentric paradigms. - Diego Pirillo, University of California, USA This book is an important example of the renewal of the history of international relations, the reading of which is necessary to grasp the political structures of the first European modernity, including Russia. - Marie-Karine Schaub, UPEC-CRHEC All in all this collection offers further contributions to a history of diplomatic practice that does not take the sovereign state diplomacy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as the standard, as Christian Windler emphasizes in his closing remarks. The contributions reveal how strongly pre-modern diplomacy was characterised by courtly forms and values and - this is an especially important aspect of the volume - certainly by no means only in Christian Europe. Similarities between aristocratic courtly styles of behaviour could well bridge cultural and religious differences. In light of these results the question of how and when the old courtly diplomacy, characterised by the actors' diversity of roles, transformed into modern state diplomacy becomes more acute, as Windler rightly emphasises. Of course the answer could no longer be the task of this volume, whose merit lies in sharpening our understanding of diplomacy of the old type beyond a Eurocentric restriction. - Hillard von Thiessen, Rostock, Zeitschrift fur Historische Forschung (translated from German)
Precisely titled, this timely volume focuses on the practices of negotiation, on process more than outcome, and provides a valuable introduction to the approaches that now guide researchers. (...) Collections of essays are notoriously a mixed bag, but this impressive volume is a superior example of the genre. (...) The editors' model introduction provides an excellent context for the specialized articles that follow. It deserves the widest readership. - Hamish Scott, Jesus College, University of Oxford This collection edited by Tracey A. Sowerby and Jan Hennings constitutes an important contribution to new diplomatic history. (...) The intersection between new diplomatic history and the history of material culture, discussed in several chapters, is no doubt one of the most innovative aspects of the volume and one that is likely to inspire future research. (...) An innovative, thought-provoking and deeply researched collection which will be useful reading not only for scholars of early modern diplomacy but for anyone interested in rethinking the history of international relations beyond the traditional state-centred and Eurocentric paradigms. - Diego Pirillo, University of California, USA This book is an important example of the renewal of the history of international relations, the reading of which is necessary to grasp the political structures of the first European modernity, including Russia. - Marie-Karine Schaub, UPEC-CRHEC
Author Information
Tracey A. Sowerby is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Central European University, Budapest. She is the author of Renaissance and reform in Tudor England: the careers of Sir Richard Morison (c.1513–1556) (2010) and was PI on the AHRC funded project ‘Textual ambassadors: cultures of diplomacy and literary writing in the early modern world’. Her forthcoming publications include The Tudor diplomatic corps and Tudor diplomatic culture. Jan Hennings is Assistant Professor of History at Central European University, Budapest. His publications include Russia and Courtly Europe: Ritual and the Culture of Diplomacy, 1648–1725 (2016).
