Overview

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 their relevance to the conduct of diplomacy and, ultimately, the outcome of diplomatic events. Among the topics covered are the social history and the operating norms of the diplomatic establishment, the influence of the public sphere on the conduct of diplomacy, the role of etiquette and protocol in diplomatic encounters, and the impact of traditions and ideology, and administrative regulations and local necessities on diplomatic practice. The case studies illustrate the close links between official and sometimes not so official interstate relations in the period between the Congress of Vienna and the outbreak of the First World War. The way in which the transformation of the political landscape affected political decision-making is discussed not only for the European great powers, but also as an international and global phenomenon. The comparative approach of this volume permits the inclusion of secondary European states such as Switzerland and non-European states in America, Asia, and North Africa. Diplomacy is thus presented as a transnational phenomenon in its own right.

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Author:   Markus Mösslang (Fellow of the German Historical Institute London) ,  Torsten Riotte (Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Frankfurt am Main)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.719kg
ISBN:  

9780199548675

ISBN 10:   0199548676
Pages:   486
Publication Date:   11 September 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Table of Contents

1: Markus Mösslang and Torsten Riotte: Introduction: The Diplomats' World Part I: The Diplomatic Establishment 2: Thomas G. Otte: 'Outdoor Relief for the Aristocracy'? European Nobility and Diplomacy, 1850-1914 3: William D. Godsey, Jr.: The Culture of Diplomacy and Reform in the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office, 1867-1914 4: Saho Matsumoto-Best: The Art of Diplomacy: British Diplomats and the Collection of Italian Renaissance Paintings, 1851-1917 Part II: Diplomacy and the Public Sphere 5: William Mulligan: Mobs and Diplomats: The Alabama Affair and British Diplomacy, 1865-1872 6: Dominik Geppert: The Public Challenge to Diplomacy: German and British Ways of Dealing with the Press, 1890-1914 Part III: Public Politics and Diplomatic Protocol 7: Susanne Schattenberg: The Diplomat as 'an actor on a great stage before all people'? A Cultural History of Diplomacy and the Portsmouth Peace Negotiations of 1905 8: Verena Steller: The Power of Protocol: On the Mechanisms of Symbolic Action in Diplomacy in Franco-German Relations, 1871-1914 Part IV: Diplomatic Encounters 9: Antony Best: The Role of Diplomatic Practice and Court Protocol in Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1867-1900 10: Sabine Mangold: Oriental Slowness? Friedrich Rosen's Expedition to the Sultan of Morocco's Court in 1906 Part V: Representing the Republic 11: David Paull Nickles: US Diplomatic Etiquette during the Nineteenth Century 12: Claude Altermatt: On Special Mission: Switzerland and its Diplomatic System Part VI: Outsiders in the Diplomats' World 13: C. R. Pennell: The Social History of British Diplomats in North Africa and how it Affected Diplomatic Policy 14: Martin Ott: Crossing the Atlantic: Bavarian Diplomacy and the Formation of Consular Services Overseas, 1820-1871 15: G. R. Berridge: Nation, Class, and Diplomacy: The Diminishing of the Dragomanate of the British Embassy in Constantinople, 1810-1914 16: Matthew S. Seligmann: 'While I am in it I am not of it': A Naval Attaché's Reflections on the Conduct of British Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, 1906-1908

Reviews

...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

...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 it. Alan Sked, English Historical Review 512 (Feb 2010). Quote loaded, 05/10/2012

...studded with gems...excellent. H-Net Reviews

Author Information

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 and Cambridge. After five years as a research fellow at the German Historical Institute London he is currently lecturer in Modern European History at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His special area of interest is the history of European elites during the long nineteenth century. He is currently working on a study of European courts in exile.

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