British Diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the present: A study in the evolution of the resident embassy

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Author: Geoffrey R. Berridge

ISBN-10: 900417639X

ISBN-13: 9789004176393

Category: Diplomacy & International Relations

Since the early twentieth century the resident embassy has been supposed to be living on borrowed time. By means of an exhaustive historical account of the contribution of the British Embassy in Turkey to Britain’s diplomatic relationship with that state, this book shows this to be false. Part A analyses the evolution of the embassy as a working unit up to the First World War: the buildings, diplomats, dragomans, consular network, and communications. Part B examines how, without any radical...

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This book describes the evolution of the component elements of the British Embassy in Turkey up to the First World War. It then explains why, without changing radically except in its communications, it remained indispensable to British diplomacy in Turkey afterwards.