The Chancelleries Of Europe

Author : Alan Palmer
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571305830
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chancelleries of Europe written by Alan Palmer and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the author's own words this is a book about 'chaps and maps'. More formally. The Chancelleries of Europe is a study of traditional diplomacy at its peak of influence in the nineteenth-century and the first years of the twentieth. At the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15 the five Great Powers - Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and Russia - established a system of international intercourse that safeguarded the world from major war for exactly a hundred years. The successive crises that challenged this supranational system - the unification of Italy and Germany, the scramble for colonies in Africa, and for trade concessions in Asia, the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of Japan - are well-known. Less attention has been given to the way the system functioned and to changes imposed on its character by the spread of speedier communications. It is these gaps in our understanding of the international politics of the century that the author seeks to fill. The book therefore studies the clashes of personality between crowned heads of the old empires and between rival statesmen and ambassadors seeking advancement. It compares the growth of personnel and specialist departments in the various foreign ministries, assesses the impact of domestic politics on external affairs, the power of the pressure groups like the (British) China Association and the (Russian) Far Eastern Committee, the proto-spin fed to favoured newspapers and, in contrast, the growing unease of press and public at 'hidden' negotiations and the concealment of diplomatic expedients and alliances. But the book also notes changes in the way diplomacy was conducted in the wake of technological inventions such as the semaphore towers of the early years and the electric telegraph and undersea cables of the second half of the century. Moments of high drama, skullduggery and bathos prove that the reading of diplomatic history is not the dull, dreary drudge many abhorred in their schooldays.

Author : Alan Warwick Palmer
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780049400719
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chancelleries of Europe written by Alan Warwick Palmer and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Le Queux William
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 935995330X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Royal Highness A Romance Of The Chancelleries Of Europe written by Le Queux William and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Her Royal Highness" is a unique via William Le Queux, a British writer recognised for his espionage and mystery fiction in the early 20th century. The tale combines factors of espionage, romance, and intrigue. The novel revolves around the fictional European country of Maurania and its young, recently widowed queen, Hilda. When a series of mysterious activities and political turmoil threaten the stableness of her reign, Queen Hilda unearths herself embroiled in a complicated web of royal politics, espionage, and romantic entanglements. As the plot unfolds, readers are taken on a adventure through the intricacies of royal courtroom life and the demanding situations faced by means of a young monarch striving to relaxed her throne. Le Queux weaves a story full of suspense, secret sellers, and political conspiracies, prepared against the backdrop of a European monarchy on the brink of alternate. "Her Royal Highness" is a testomony to Le Queux's mastery of the secret agent mystery style and his ability to create compelling characters and difficult plotlines. The novel gives readers an intriguing combination of romance and espionage, with a focal point at the courage and resourcefulness of a younger queen navigating the complexities of her function.

Author : William Le Queux
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781354379745
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Author : William Le Queux
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290054058
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Author : William Le Queux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143036599
Total Pages : 834 pages
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Download or read book Europe Central written by William T. Vollmann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-11-14 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daring literary masterpiece and winner of the National Book Award In this magnificent work of fiction, acclaimed author William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye on the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century to render a mesmerizing perspective on human experience during wartime. Through interwoven narratives that paint a composite portrait of these two battling leviathans and the monstrous age they defined, Europe Central captures a chorus of voices both real and fictional— a young German who joins the SS to fight its crimes, two generals who collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich and the Stalinist assaults upon his work and life.

Author : William Le Queux
Publisher : Emereo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781486499038
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Author : Alan Palmer
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571305849
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metternich written by Alan Palmer and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glib assessment of Metternich might not be a favourable one, he was not without his ridiculous qualities, and yet he survived, more than survived, in fact, with the 'Age of Metternich' lasting for more than a generation, and giving Europe a measure of peace, albeit repressive, that was much needed after the Napoleonic convulsions. Alan Palmer describes well Metternich's extraordinary longevity. 'Clement von Metternich held continuous office at the head of Europe's affairs for a longer period of time than any other statesman in modern history: he became foreign minister of the Austrian Empire in the autumn of 1809 and he did not resign until the spring of 1848. For thirty-three of these thirty-nine years his statecraft and philosophy of government determined the political pattern of the continent. The 'Age of Metternich' , though often impatiently dismissed by historians as a mere interlude, lasted for twice as long as the 'Age of Napoleon' which preceded it and for half as long again as the 'Age of Bismarck' which followed in the closing decades of the century.' Metternich was a statesman to his fingertips, practising 'the skills of diplomacy with greater fluency than any contemporary Talleyrand, from whom he had learnt many of the refinement of the game.' How would he fare today? Probably quite well as he was, again in Alan Palmer's words, 'an early champion of federalism and a good European ...' 'As a work of history (it) cannot be faulted.' A. J. P. Taylor, Observer 'Well-written, well-researched, lucid and witty.' Philip Ziegler, The Times

Author : William Le Queux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331015864
Total Pages : 340 pages
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