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British Diplomacy and the Descent into Chaos

The Career of Jack Garnett, 1902-19

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  • © 2012

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  1. John Fisher

    1. University of the West of England, UK

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Part of the book series: Britain and the World (BAW)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-15

  3. Constantinople: ‘A Very Wonderful Place’

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    Pages 16-40

  4. Like a Plant Uprooted: Life in Peking

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    Pages 41-60

  5. ‘People Who Squeeze and People Who May Be Squeezed’: Across Mongolia, 1908

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    Pages 61-79

  6. Bucharest and St Petersburg

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    Pages 80-99

  7. Tehran 1911–14 — ‘Into the Vortex’

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    Pages 100-123

  8. London, Sofia and Athens, and the ‘Episode of the “Floating Bag”’

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    Pages 124-142

  9. Tangier — ‘A Confusion of the East and the West’

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    Pages 143-162

  10. A ‘Hardly Used Genus’: First Secretary in Buenos Aires

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    Pages 163-185

  11. A Climacteric

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    Pages 186-205

  12. Epilogue

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    Pages 206-210

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 211-280
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Recreating the diplomatic career of Jack Garnett, from 1902-1919, John Fisher reveals a fascinating individual as well as contextualizing his story with regard to British policy in the countries to which he was posted in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, during a period of rapid change in international politics and in Britain's world role.

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  • University of the West of England, UK

    John Fisher

About the author

JOHN FISHER teaches History at the University of the West of England, Bristol. His previous books include Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East (1999), and Gentleman Spies (2002), and he has also co-edited several books and written many journal articles.

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