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British diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the present : a study in the evolution of the resident embassy / by G.R. Berridge

Author
Berridge, Geoff
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 336 pages, 22 pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
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English.
Contents
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Maps -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part A -- Evolution -- Chapter One -- 'The English Palace' -- The early embassy -- Home ownership8212;and its woes -- The difficult birth of the Smith-Barry embassy -- Mixed reviews and another fire -- The embassy 'fleet' -- Chapter Two -- Diplomats -- The ambassador -- The domestic family -- The official family -- The importance of size -- Chapter Three -- Dragomans -- Raising the cry for 'natural-born Englishmen' -- Oriental secretary and fi rst dragoman: "two bad public servants instead of one good one" -- The weakening of the dragomanate -- Levantine rearguard -- No career for the dragomans -- Chapter Four -- Consuls -- Creation of the network -- Trading consuls, and Levantines -- Hornby's Supreme Consular Court -- The founding of the Levant Service -- Political consuls -- The consulate-general: controversy and contraction -- "The step-child of the Foreign Office" -- Chapter Five -- Communications -- "Ye surest, and most speedy conveyance you can" -- The consequences of poor communications -- Reducing the need for good communications -- Searching for improvements -- "The telegraph frenzy" -- Part B -- Twentieth Century Role -- Introduction to Part B -- Chapter Six -- Foreigners and Sailors, 19148211;24 -- The British Section, 19148211;18 -- The British High Commission, 19188211;24 -- Chapter Seven -- Reluctantly to Ankara, 19248211;38 -- A dragomanate by any other name -- An 'embassy' in spite of everything -- Ankara in spite of everything -- Mosul 19268212;"disposing of the Turk" -- Two-centre embassy -- Making bricks without straw -- Political reporting and intelligence gathering -- Losing the monopoly of bilateral agreements -- Chapter Eight -- Embassy at War, 19398211;44 -- Negotiating the Anglo-Turkish alliance -- Following up the treaty -- Militarization of the embassy -- Frustrating SOE -- Struggling to coordinate propaganda -- Juggling high-level visitors -- Scripting a spy fi lm: the 'Cicero' affair -- Chapter Nine -- Business as Usual, 19458211;74 -- Return to peacetime mode -- NATO, payments, and planes -- A typical medium-sized post -- Cyprus: "the main preoccupation of the Embassy" -- Still juggling high-level visitors -- Chapter Ten -- Business above all? 19748211;2008 -- Trouble with trucks -- Still a 'comprehensive post' -- Drugs and immigrants -- Two-centre embassy once more -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- 1 British ambassadors to Turkey, 15838211;2008 -- 2 Turkish ambassadors to Britain, 17938211;2008 -- 3 Royal instructions to Lord Chandos, 29 December 1680 -- 4 British consular posts and consular officers in the Ottoman Empire, 1852 -- 5 Comparative statement of extraordinary expenses of HM Embassy at Constantinople, 18578211;69, 163; Sterling -- 6 Cumberbatch's letter to Waugh from the US Embassy in Constantinople -- 7 Non-career staff employed at the British Consulate-General, Istanbul, 1946 -- 8 British consuls-general at Istanbul, 18068211;2008 -- 9 Anglo-Turkish bilateral agreements (with place of signing) presented to the House of Comm.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9789047429838 (electronic bk.)
9047429834 (electronic bk.)
1282601482
9781282601482
9786612601484
6612601485
9789004176393 (hardback ; alk. paper)
900417639X (hardback ; alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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