| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 336 pages, 22 pages of plates) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Diplomatic studies,
1872-8863 ;
3
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Diplomatic studies ; v. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Turkey.
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Great Britain. |
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International relations. |
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Turkey. |
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Turkey -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
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Diplomatic and consular service -- Great Britain -- History.
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Diplomatic and consular service. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Berridge, Geoff. British diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the present. Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009 9789004176393 (DLC) 2009017066 (OCoLC)318867366 |
| ISBN |
9789047429838 (electronic book) |
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9047429834 (electronic book) |
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1282601482 |
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9781282601482 |
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9789004176393 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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900417639X (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004176393.i-336 |
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