On the fringes of diplomacy [electronic resource] : influences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945 / edited by John Fisher and Antony Best.

On cover: Ashgate e-book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The invisible politician : Mary Derby and the Eastern crisis / John Charmley and Jennifer Davey -- Diplomacy and the fourth estate : the role of the press in British foreign policy / David Brown -- "He interviews the ambassadors" : Alfred de Rothschild, high finance, and high politics in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / T.G. Otte -- Services rendered : Arminius Vambéry and British diplomacy / Keith Hamilton -- The double agent's tale : Vincent Kraft and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1915-18 / Antony Best -- Writers, the clergy, and the "diplomatization" of culture : sub-structures of Anglo-American diplomacy, 1820-1914 / Melanie Hall and Erik Goldstein -- "An eagle whose wings are not always easy to clip" : Walter Burton Harris / John Fisher -- Gunboats, independence movements and war : three incidents involving missionaries on the fringes of diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Hamish Ion -- The cultural diplomacy of Sir James Rennell Rodd / Saho Matsumoto-Best -- Diplomatic light and shade : Sir Eric Phipps and Anglo-French relations, 1922-1928 / Gaynor Johnson -- "An excellent conning-tower" : John Buchan on the fringes of diplomacy / Keith Neilson -- "Miserably kept running in low gear" : Lord Lloyd at the periphery of politics and diplomacy, 1930 to 1940 / Louise Atherton.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.