T. G. Otte: The Foreign Office Mind

Cover: 9781107613102 | The Foreign Office Mind | T. G. Otte | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2013

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With this pioneering approach to the study of international history, T. G. Otte reconstructs the underlying principles, élite perceptions and 'unspoken assumptions' that shaped British foreign policy between the death of Palmerston and the outbreak of the First World War. Grounded in a wide range of public and private archival sources, and drawing on sociological insights, The Foreign Office Mind presents a comprehensive analysis of the foreign service as a 'knowledge-based organization', rooted in the social and educational background of the diplomatic élite and the broader political, social and cultural fabric of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The book charts how the collective mindset of successive generations of professional diplomats evolved, and reacted to and shaped changes in international relations during the second half of the nineteenth century, including the balance of power and arms races, the origins of appeasement and the causes of the First World War.

Über den Autor

T. G. Otte is Senior Lecturer in Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia. His recent publications include The China Question: Great Power Rivalry and British Isolation, 1894-1905 (2007), The Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1854-1946 (with Keith Neilson, 2009) and Coalition Government in Britain: From Glorious Revolution to Cameron-Clegg (as editor, 2010).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Illusions of supremacy: the Foreign Office mind, 1865-74; 2. The problems of isolation: the Foreign Office mind, 1874-85; 3. Problems of consolidation: the Foreign Office mind, 1885-92; 4. Two eastern questions: the Foreign Office mind and the period of flux in great power politics, 1892-1900; 5. The transformation of great power politics: the Edwardian Foreign Office mind, 1900-7; 6. The end of an era: the late-Edwardian Foreign Office mind, 1907-14; Conclusion.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781107613102
ISBN-10:	1107613108
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Otte, T. G.
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	T. G. Otte
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.08.2013
Gewicht:	0,672 kg