British diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the present : a study in the evolution of the resident embassy /
| Основен автор: | Berridge, Geoff. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,
2009.
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| Серия: |
Diplomatic studies ;
v. 3. |
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
British diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the present. |
Съдържание:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Maps
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part A
- Evolution
- Chapter One
- 'The English Palace'
- The early embassy
- Home ownership8212;and its woes
- The difficult birth of the Smith-Barry embassy
- Mixed reviews and another fire
- The embassy 'fleet'
- Chapter Two
- Diplomats
- The ambassador
- The domestic family
- The official family
- The importance of size
- Chapter Three
- Dragomans
- Raising the cry for 'natural-born Englishmen'
- Oriental secretary and fi rst dragoman: "two bad public servants instead of one good one"
- The weakening of the dragomanate
- Levantine rearguard
- No career for the dragomans
- Chapter Four
- Consuls
- Creation of the network
- Trading consuls, and Levantines
- Hornby's Supreme Consular Court
- The founding of the Levant Service
- Political consuls
- The consulate-general: controversy and contraction
- "The step-child of the Foreign Office"
- Chapter Five
- Communications
- "Ye surest, and most speedy conveyance you can"
- The consequences of poor communications
- Reducing the need for good communications
- Searching for improvements
- "The telegraph frenzy"
- Part B
- Twentieth Century Role
- Introduction to Part B
- Chapter Six
- Foreigners and Sailors, 19148211;24
- The British Section, 19148211;18
- The British High Commission, 19188211;24
- Chapter Seven
- Reluctantly to Ankara, 19248211;38
- A dragomanate by any other name
- An 'embassy' in spite of everything
- Ankara in spite of everything
- Mosul 19268212;"disposing of the Turk"
- Two-centre embassy
- Making bricks without straw
- Political reporting and intelligence gathering
- Losing the monopoly of bilateral agreements
- Chapter Eight
- Embassy at War, 19398211;44
- Negotiating the Anglo-Turkish alliance
- Following up the treaty
- Militarization of the embassy
- Frustrating SOE
- Struggling to coordinate propaganda
- Juggling high-level visitors
- Scripting a spy fi lm: the 'Cicero' affair
- Chapter Nine
- Business as Usual, 19458211;74
- Return to peacetime mode
- NATO, payments, and planes
- A typical medium-sized post
- Cyprus: "the main preoccupation of the Embassy"
- Still juggling high-level visitors
- Chapter Ten
- Business above all? 19748211;2008
- Trouble with trucks
- Still a 'comprehensive post'
- Drugs and immigrants
- Two-centre embassy once more
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- 1 British ambassadors to Turkey, 15838211;2008
- 2 Turkish ambassadors to Britain, 17938211;2008
- 3 Royal instructions to Lord Chandos, 29 December 1680
- 4 British consular posts and consular officers in the Ottoman Empire, 1852
- 5 Comparative statement of extraordinary expenses of HM Embassy at Constantinople, 18578211;69, 163; Sterling
- 6 Cumberbatch's letter to Waugh from the US Embassy in Constantinople
- 7 Non-career staff employed at the British Consulate-General, Istanbul, 1946
- 8 British consuls-general at Istanbul, 18068211;2008
- 9 Anglo-Turkish bilateral agreements (with place of signing) presented to the House of Comm.