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

BOOK

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