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Author : Rennell Rodd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Social and Diplomatic Memories, 1884-1919: 1902-1919 written by Rennell Rodd and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir James Rennell Rodd K.C.B.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782892931
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Social And Diplomatic Memories, 1884-1919 written by Sir James Rennell Rodd K.C.B. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir James Rennell Rodd a key diplomat during the First World War holding the post as the United Kingdom’s ambassador to Italy. It was through his influence that secured the adhesion of the Italians to the Allied cause even during the bloody battles in the rocky outcrops of the North East of the country. This tied down large numbers of Austrian and German troops that could have been utilised on other fronts. He published his memoirs in three volumes, of which this is the third, between 1922 and 1925; they were received with some acclaim, following a life-long passion with literature he wrote with an easy style, with a great eye for detail and a vivid eye the political tides that ebbed and flowed around him. An interesting book from a viewpoint often forgotten in the literature of the First World War.
Author : Philip Boobbyer
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785276646
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)
Download or read book The Life and World of Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978) written by Philip Boobbyer and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biographical study of the geographer/explorer and banker Francis Rodd, the second Lord Rennell of Rodd (1895-1978). Rodd’s life is interesting for the way it connected the worlds of geography, international finance, politics, espionage, and wartime military administration. He was famous in the 1920s for his journeys to the Sahara and his study of the Tuareg, People of the Veil (1926). A career in banking included a stint at the Bank of England, before he became a Partner in the merchant bank Morgan Grenfell—where remained for most of his working life (1933-1961). During the war he worked for the Ministry of Economic Warfare (1939=40), before getting closely involved in the sphere of military government (civil affairs). In 1942, he was War Office’s Chief Political Officer in East Africa. He was then appointed head of the first Allied Military Government in occupied Europe (Chief Civil Affairs Officer of AMGOT). In civil affairs, he was drawn to the principles of indirect rule. A generalist in an age of growing specialisation, he was also a mixture of traditionalist and moderniser. A product of Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, and elevated to the peerage in 1941, he was well-connected socially, and his life is a window onto British society at a time of great change.
Author : Robert Holland
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300235925
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Warm South written by Robert Holland and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons--including many painters and poets--who sought from it the inspiration, beauty, and fulfillment that evaded them at home. Referred to as "Magick Land" by one traveler, dreams about the Mediterranean, and responses to it, went on to shape the culture of a nation. Written by one of the world's leading historians of the Mediterranean, this book charts how a new sensibility arose from British engagement with the Mediterranean, ancient and modern. Ranging from Byron's poetry to Damien Hirst's installations, Robert Holland shows that while idealized visions and aspirations often met with disillusionment and frustration, the Mediterranean also offered a notably insular society the chance to enrich itself through an imagined world of color, carnival, and sensual self-discovery.
Author : Helen McCarthy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408840049
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Women of the World written by Helen McCarthy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original, compellingly told story of women's fight to represent their country abroad in the face of opposition from the men of the Foreign Office 'A fascinating account of the manoeuvres of the leaders of the Foreign Office to prevent the admission of women to its diplomatic and consular services' Spectator 'The women are striking, the trajectories of their often brief careers compelling' Observer Throughout the twentieth century and long before, hundreds of determined British women defied the social conventions of their day in order to seek adventure and influence on the world stage. Some became travellers and explorers; others business-owners or buyers; others still devoted their lives to worthy international causes, from anti-slavery and women's suffrage to the League of Nations and world peace. Yet until 1946, no British woman could officially represent her nation abroad. It was only after decades of campaigning and the heroic labours performed by women during the Second World War that diplomatic careers were finally opened to both sexes. Women of the World tells this story of personal and professional struggle against the dramatic backdrop of war, super-power rivalry and global transformation over the last century and a half. From London to Washington, Geneva to Tehran, and in the deserts of Arabia, the souks of Damascus and the hospitals of Sarajevo, resolute women undaunted by intransigent officials and hostile foreign governments proved their worth. Moved by a longing to escape domestic redundancy, to follow in the footsteps of fathers or brothers, to build a more peaceful world, to discover cultures other than their own or simply to serve the nation which denied them full equality, these women were extraordinary individuals fighting prejudice in high places. Drawing on letters, memoirs, personal interviews and government records, these heroines caught up in the larger endeavours of the world's greatest empire are brought vividly to life to enrich our understanding of Britain's global history in modern times.
Author : T. Bose
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774844817
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End written by T. Bose and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.
Author : C. Baxter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137367822
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Britain in Global Politics Volume 1 written by C. Baxter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays focuses upon Britain's international and imperial role from the mid-Victorian era through until the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Individual chapters by acknowledged authorities in their field deal with a variety of broad-ranging and particular issues, including: 'cold wars' before the Cold War in Anglo-Russian relations; Lord Curzon and the diplomacy of war and peace-making; air-power as an instrument of colonial control; Foreign Office efforts to frame and influence the historical narrative; Winston Churchill's alternative to, and the pursuit of, policies of 'appeasement'; British responses to conflict and regime change in Spain; the Secret Intelligence Service and British diplomacy in East Asia'; Neville Chamberlain and the 'phoney war'; efforts to combat American misperceptions of Britain in wartime; and British-American differences over the future of Italy's colonial possessions. This collection, along with the accompanying volume covering the period after World War 2, is dedicated to the memory of Professor Saki Dockrill.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Canadian Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book University of Toronto Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Bookseller & Stationer and Office Equipment Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. G. Otte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501402
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book The Foreign Office Mind written by T. G. Otte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Honnold Library for the Associated Colleges. William W. Clary Oxford Collection
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The William W. Clary Oxford Collection written by Honnold Library for the Associated Colleges. William W. Clary Oxford Collection and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rennell Rodd
Publisher : London : E. Arnold
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Social and Diplomatic Memories (third Series) 1902-1919 written by Rennell Rodd and published by London : E. Arnold. This book was released on 1925 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. James Strudwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of the British Diplomatic Memoir, C.1890 to the Present written by A. James Strudwick and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward W. Hanson
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wandering Princess written by Edward W. Hanson and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-13 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helene was a strong-willed princess, raised in France but closely connected with the court of Queen Victoria. After the premature end to a romance with Victoria's grandson, she married into the royal family of Italy. However, Helene began extended adventuresome trips into Africa where she became a big-game hunter, explorer and travel writer, escaping from an unhappy marriage and the boredom of court life. Her travels took her around the world, but her sense of royal duty brought her back to nurse aboard a hospital ship in Libyan waters, then to an important role as head of the Italian Red Cross nurses during the First World War while her husband headed Italy's Third Army, and her two sons served in the artillery and the navy. Afterwards, her strong Italian nationalism made her an ally to Gabriele d'Annunzio and Benito Mussolini, but the disastrous Second World War saw her grandchildren interned in Austria and her older son die as a British prisoner-of-war while she continued her charitable work in Naples. When the country voted to become a republic in 1946, Helene was the only member of the royal family allowed to remain in Italy with her second 'secret' husband.
Author : Lewis L. Gould
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700626514
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Edith Kermit Roosevelt written by Lewis L. Gould and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few first ladies have enjoyed a better reputation among historians than Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Aristocratic and sophisticated, tasteful and discreet, she managed the White House with a sure hand. Her admirers say that she never slipped in carrying out her duties as hostess, mother, and adviser to her husband. Lewis Gould's path-breaking study, however, presents a more complex and interesting figure than the somewhat secularized saint Edith Roosevelt has become in the literature on first ladies. While many who knew her found her inspiring and gracious, family members also recalled a more astringent and sometimes nasty personality. Gould looks beneath the surface of her life to examine the intricate legacy of her tenure from 1901 to 1909. The narrative in this book thus uncovers much new about Edith Roosevelt. Far from being averse to activism, Edith Roosevelt served as a celebrity sponsor at a New York musical benefit and also intervened in a high-profile custody dispute. Gould traces her role in the failed marriage of a United States senator, her efforts to secure the ambassador from Great Britain that she wanted, and the growing tension between her and Helen Taft in 1908-1909. Her commitment to bringing classical music artists to the White House, along with other popular performers, receives the fullest attention to date. Gould also casts a skeptical eye over the area where Edith Roosevelt's standing has been strongest, her role as a mother. He looks at how she and her husband performed as parents and dissents from the accustomed judgment that all was well with the way the Roosevelt offspring developed. Most important of all, Gould reveals the first lady's deep animus toward African Americans and their place in American society. She believed "that any mixture of races is an unmitigated evil." The impact of her bigotry on Theodore Roosevelt's racial policies must now be an element in any future discussion of that sensitive subject. On balance, Gould finds that Edith Roosevelt played an important and creative part in how the institution of the first lady developed during the twentieth century. His sprightly retelling of her White House years will likely provoke controversy and debate. All those interested in how the role of the presidential wife has evolved will find in this stimulating book a major contribution to the literature on a fascinating president. It also brings to life a first lady whose legacy must now be seen in a more nuanced and challenging light.
