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Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
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Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Life of the Right Honourable Stratford Canning written by Stanley Lane-Poole and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Paull NICKLES
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041550
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Under the Wire written by David Paull NICKLES and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the telegraph, a new and revolutionary form of communication, affect diplomats, who tended to resist change? In a study based on impressive multinational research, David Paull Nickles examines the critical impact of the telegraph on the diplomacy of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Case studies in crisis diplomacy--the War of 1812, the Trent affair during the U.S. Civil War, and the famous 1917 Zimmermann telegram--introduce wide-ranging thematic discussions on the autonomy of diplomats; the effects of increased speed on decision making and public opinion; the neglected role of clerks in diplomacy; and the issues of expense, garbled text, espionage, and technophobia that initially made foreign ministries wary of telegraphy. Ultimately, the introduction of the telegraph contributed to the centralization of foreign ministries and the rising importance of signals intelligence. The faster pace of diplomatic disputes invited more emotional decisions by statesmen, while public opinion often exercised a belligerent influence on crises developing over a shorter time period. Under the Wire offers a fascinating new perspective on the culture of diplomacy and the social history of technology. Table of Contents: Introduction I. Control 1. The Anglo-American Crisis of 1812 2. Diplomatic Autonomy and Telecommunications II. Speed 3. The Trent Affair 4. Speed and Diplomacy 5. Diplomatic Time III. The Medium 6. The Zimmermann Telegram 7. Technical and Economic Factors Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index Reviews of this book: David Paull Nickles has plumbed the archives of four countries to determine just how transformative [the invention of the telegraph] really was. Under the Wire is a subtle and impressive examination of history. --Christian D. Brose, Wall Street Journal In this study of the impact of telegraphy on the management of international relations, the reader is rewarded time and again by finding original observations regarding familiar events. This is a book that can have a shaping effect not only on the field of international relations but on many others, since it compels one to think hard about how changes in technology affect behavior and thought among groups with deeply rooted traditions and beliefs. --Ernest R. May, Harvard University
Author : Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Speeches of the Right Honourable Lord Randolph Churchill, M. P., 1880-1888 written by Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence M. Woods
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1452040125
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Edward Shelley's Journal, 1856-61 written by Lawrence M. Woods and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh from a stint recruiting Albanians to fight the Cossacks in the Crimean War, Edward Shelley embarked for South America, to avoid tiresome (and embarrassing) Parliamentary hearings back home. Thus began a trip around the world over the next 52 months, as he searched for adventure and new scenes to explore, stopping at intervals to collect traveling money from home. Shelley found adventure in full measure, crossing the Andes, passing through revolution-ravaged Mexico, sleeping alongside an erupting Hawaiian volcano and following invading British and French armies into China; and even close brushes with death receive only laconic mention in his journal. Annotations of the journal typescript explain journal some obscure entries and provide the historical and geographical context for his travels.
Author : Steven Richmond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857723650
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Voice of England in the East written by Steven Richmond and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the time of the 'Great Powers', Stratford Canning served as British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during several long missions throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. Drafted into diplomacy by his older cousin and mentor, the statesman George Canning, Stratford arrived in the Ottoman capital at the age of 22 in January 1809, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. He concluded his final mission there in October 1858, more than two years after the end of the Crimean War. His name became synonymous across Europe with the so-called Eastern Question, the imperial contest between the Powers for leverage in the Levant. Canning was a prominent figure in major diplomatic episoes of the period, including the crucial peace-treaty reached by the Ottomans and Russians in late May 1812, only weeks before Napoleon's invasion of Russia; the war of Greek independence in the 1820s and the negotiation of an independent Greek state in 1832; and the preliminaries of the Crimean War in 1853. He witnessed and documented dramatic moments of Ottoman politics, such as the Vaka-i Hayriye or 'Auspicious Event'- the elimination of the ancient elite palace guards, the Janissaries, by Sultan Mahmud II in June 1826. For decades Canning supported the Ottoman reform movement, and he played a role in developments preceding Sultan Abdulmecit's abolition of capital punishment for apostasy from Islam in March 1844. In The Voice of England in the East, Steven Richmond reconstructs the imperial objectives and diplomatic pratices of the period; and depicts the characters, customs and scenes of Konstantniyye, Ottoman Constantinople. Based upon Canning's personal archive, British and Ottoman diplomatic records, newspaper accounts, correspondence and memoirs, the result is an original study of East-West relations and a novel portrait of empire at the dawn of the industrial era.
Author : Abigail Green
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674283147
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Moses Montefiore written by Abigail Green and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rich gift to history—and not just Jewish history—for its account not just of what Moses Montefiore did or did not do, but also of what he was.” —New Republic Humanitarian, philanthropist, and campaigner for Jewish emancipation on a grand scale, Sir Moses Montefiore (1784–1885) was the preeminent Jewish figure of the nineteenth century. His story, told here in full for the first time, is a remarkable and illuminating tale of diplomacy and adventure. Abigail Green’s sweeping biography follows Montefiore through the realms of court and ghetto, tsar and sultan, synagogue and stock exchange. Interweaving the public triumph of Montefiore’s foreign missions with the private tragedy of his childless marriage, this book brings the diversity of nineteenth-century Jewry brilliantly to life. Here we see the origins of Zionism and the rise of international Jewish consciousness, the faltering birth of international human rights, and the making of the modern Middle East. Mining materials from eleven countries in nine languages, Green’s masterly biography bridges the East-West divide in modern Jewish history, presenting the transformation of Jewish life in Europe, the Middle East, and the New World as part of a single global phenomenon. As it reestablishes Montefiore’s status as a major historical player, it also restores a significant chapter to the history of our modern world. “A masterpiece of scholarship and historical imagination.” —Niall Ferguson, New York Times bestselling author of The Square and the Tower “Entertaining.” —The Economist “A perceptive, solidly researched biography with expressive period illustrations attesting to Montefiore's global celebrity.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Deeply impressive. . . . One of the essential works on modern Jewish history.” —Tablet Magazine “Fair and illuminating.” —The Wall Street Journal
Author : Mogens Trolle Larsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317949951
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Conquest of Assyria written by Mogens Trolle Larsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conquest of Assyria tells what must surely be one of the most romantic tales of archaeological endeavour. The great cities and ancient palaces of Mesopotamia had lain buried for over two millenia, and were all but forgotten, half remembered in the Hebrew Bible and Classical texts. This volume records the dramatic finds, the decipherment of the cuneiform system of writing and the rediscovery of a lost civilisation.
Author : Gregory L. Cuéllar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030240282
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century written by Gregory L. Cuéllar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the modern period, the field of biblical studies has relied upon libraries, museums, and archives for its evidentiary and credentialing needs. Yet, absent in biblical scholarship is a thorough and critical examination of the instrumentality of the discipline’s master archives for elite power structures. Addressing this gap in biblical scholarship lies central to this book. Interrogated here is a premier repository or master archive of the discipline: the British Museum. Using an assemblage of critical theories from archival discourse to postcolonial studies, space theory to governmentality studies, the focal point of this book is at the intersections of the Museum’s rise to scientific prominence, the British Empire, and the conferring of scientific authority to modern biblical critics in the nineteenth century. Gregory L. Cuéllar initiates a season of historicization of the master archives of biblical studies and archival criticism.
Author : Frederick Leypoldt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Literary News written by Frederick Leypoldt and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Stevenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857736914
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Beatson's Mutiny written by Richard Stevenson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century. He trained many future commanders of the Victorian army, saw action in Spain and British India, and rode with the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava. But tasked with disciplining the Turkish Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean War, his character flaws led him into conflict with politicians and diplomats running the war, who accused him of inciting mutiny. Parliament, newspapers and the law courts then became his chosen battlefields as he fought to clear his name and return to duty. By bringing Beatson s life and career into sharper focus, Richard Stevenson connects wide-ranging themes in Victorian military and imperial history in a fresh and accessible way."
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Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Literary News written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Humphry Ward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Romney written by Thomas Humphry Ward and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Ingram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135196427
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Ottoman Encounters in the Age of Revolution written by Edward Ingram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the effects of involvement in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on the Ottoman Empire. The book analyzes Anglo-Ottoman relations in a series of studies of five British ambassadors at Constantinople and one Foreign Secretary, George Canning.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1748 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Selim Deringil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107004551
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire written by Selim Deringil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire traditional religious structures crumbled as the empire itself began to fall apart. The state's answer to schism was regulation and control, administered in the form of a number of edicts in the early part of the century. It is against this background that different religious communities and individuals negotiated survival by converting to Islam when their political interests or their lives were at stake. As the century progressed, however, conversion was no longer sufficient to guarantee citizenship and property rights as the state became increasingly paranoid about its apostates and what it perceived as their 'denationalization'. The book tells the story of the struggle between the Ottoman State, the Great Powers and a multitude of evangelical organizations, shedding light on current flash-points in the Arab world and the Balkans, offering alternative perspectives on national and religious identity and the interconnection between the two.
Author : New Zealand. Parliament. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the General Assembly Library of New Zealand written by New Zealand. Parliament. Library and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis M. Carroll
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802083586
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (835 download)
Download or read book A Good and Wise Measure written by Francis M. Carroll and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the attempts to settle the original boundary between British North America and the United States. Though established by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the boundary was plagued by ambiguities and errors in the document.
