Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Helps for Students of History
Author: The Secretaries of State, 1681-1782.
Author: Mark A. ThomsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429620888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Published in 1968: While giving a lucid account of the functions and difficulties of the office of Principal Secretary, the author shows clearly how the retention of this position was a characteristic example of the English habit of clinging to old forms in political matters long after these forms have ceased to bear any relationship to reality. Originally a clerk in the King's private household and writer of his letters, by the end of the seventeenth century the position had become a political office, second only in importance to that of Lord High Treasurer.
The Sources for the History of the Council in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
Author: Edward Robert AdairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Wars and Betweenness
Author: Bojan AleksovPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633863368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The region between the Baltic and the Black Sea was marked by a set of crises and conflicts in the 1920s and 1930s, demonstrating the diplomatic, military, economic or cultural engagement of France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Italy and Japan in this highly volatile region, and critically damaging the fragile post-Versailles political arrangement. The editors, in naming this region as "Middle Europe" seek to revive the symbolic geography of the time and accentuate its position, situated between Big Powers and two World Wars. The ten case studies in this book combine traditional diplomatic history with a broader emphasis on the geopolitical aspects of Big-Power rivalry to understand the interwar period. The essays claim that the European Big Powers played a key role in regional affairs by keeping the local conflicts and national movements under control and by exploiting the region's natural resources and military dependencies, while at the same time strengthening their prestige through cultural penetration and the cultivation of client networks. The authors, however, want to avoid the simplistic view that the Big Powers fully dominated the lesser players on the European stage. The relationship was indeed hierarchical, but the essays also reveal how the "small states" manipulated Big-Power disagreements, highlighting the limits of the latters' leverage throughout the 1920s and the 1930s.
That Sweet Enemy
Author: Robert TombsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781446426241
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
The Art and Practice of Diplomacy
Author: Robert Bartlett HarmonPublisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Handbook of British Chronology
Author: Frederick Maurice PowickePublisher: London : Offices of the Royal Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : Chronology
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Foreign Relations of the United States
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Author: Indiana University