Servants of Diplomacy

A Domestic History of the Victorian Foreign Office

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Keith Hamilton, UK) Hamilton, Visiting Professor Keith (Kings College, London

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Servants of Diplomacy offers a bottom-up history of the 19th-century Foreign Office and in doing so, provides a ground-breaking study of modern British diplomacy. Whilst current literature focuses on the higher echelons of the Office, Keith Hamilton sheds a new light on the administrative and social history of Whitehall which have, until now, been largely ignored. Hamilton’s examination of the roles and actions of the Foreign Office’s domestic staff is exhaustive, with close attention paid to: the keepers of the office, keepers of the papers, the carriers of the papers and the efforts made to adapt to growing technological changes. Hamilton’s exhaustive analysis also focuses on the reforms of 1905-06 and the Queen’s Messengers during wartime.Drawing extensively from Foreign Office and Treasury archives and private manuscript collections, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest of British diplomatic history.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-25
Mått154 x 232 x 16 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350212800

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Introduction: An Office of Class and ClassificationPart I: Keepers of the Office1. Residents2. Pets, Pests and Other Miscreants3. Riot and DebaucheryPart II: Keepers of the Papers4. Arranging, Methodizing and Digesting5. Quite de Jack in Office6. Much Irregularity 7. The Hardest Working Man in Europe8. Unhappy Spirit9. Misnomer’s HeirPart III: Carriers of the Papers10. Persons of a Very Subordinate Class11. A Change in the Class of Persons12. New Ways for Old13. Matters of Caprice and Fancy14. The End of SuperintendencePart IV: Adjusting to the New15. Servants of the New16. Theft, Negligence and Security17. Divisions of Labour18. Pestilence, Redolence and SustenancePart V: Managing the Past19. Supernumeraries, Supplementals and Pay20. Archives, Arrears and Registers21. Publishing the Record22. After the Hertslets23. Custody, Research (and Arrears)Part VI: Delivering the Message24. Rewarding Gentlemen25. Here Today but Gone Tomorrow26. Testing their Worth27. Going Local, Paying LessConclusionBibliographyIndex

This is a book of great erudition, and one that entertains. That is a rare enough combination. Few would attempt it; fewer still could hope to accomplish it. Hamilton has done so. In writing Servants of Diplomacy, he has done a great service to others working in the burgeoning field of diplomatic and international history. He has taken it in a new direction, using innovative ideas, but without losing sight of the wider context. … There is no other work of this kind. In the otherwise overlabored phrase, this book really does break new ground. It will quickly become known as the go-to work on the subject. Scholars working in cognate areas of nineteenth-century social history will find much stimulating material and analysis in this book. It will be of interest also to anyone interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century international history. Servants of Diplomacy is to be highly recommended.