CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS THE FOREIGN OFFICE MIND 2013 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: THE FOREIGN OFFICE MIND: THE MAKING OF BRITISH

FOREIGN POLICY, 1865-1914

PUBLISHER: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

LINK: http://is.gd/k33kzx RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL

FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2015.01.08

ISBN: 9781107613102 STORE DATE: 2013

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AUTHOR: T. G. OTTE



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With this pioneering approach to the study of international

history, T. G. Otte reconstructs the underlying principles, elite

perceptions and 'unspoken assumptions' that shaped British

foreign policy between the death of Palmerston and the outbreak

of the First World War. Grounded in a wide range of public and

private archival sources, and drawing on sociological insights

The Foreign Office Mind presents a comprehensive analysis of the

foreign service as a 'knowledge-based-organisation', rooted in

the social and educational background of the diplomatic elite and

the broader political, social and cultural fabric of Victorian

and Edwardian Britain. The book charts how the collective mindset

of successive generations of professional diplomats evolved, and

reacted to and shaped changes in international relations during

the second half of the nineteenth century, including the balance

of power and arms races, the origins of appeasement and the

origins of the First World War