British Diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the present : A study in the evolution of the resident embassy (9789004176393)

Since the early twentieth century the resident embassy has been supposed to be living on borrowed time. By means of an exhaustive historical account of the contribution of the British Embassy in Turkey to Britain's diplomatic relationship with that state, this book shows this to be false. Part A analyses the evolution of the embassy as a working unit up to the First World War: the buildings, diplomats, dragomans, consular network, and communications. Part B examines how, without any radical changes except in its communications, it successfully met the heavy demands made on it in the following century, for example by playing a key role in a multitude of bilateral negotiations and providing cover to secret agents and drugs liaison officers.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 336 pages
• Dimensions 160 x 240 x 25.4mm | 786g
• Publication date 31 Jul 2009
• Publisher Brill
• Imprint Martinus Nijhoff
• Publication City/Country Leiden, Netherlands, Netherlands
• Language English
• ISBN10 900417639X
• ISBN13 9789004176393

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