Number 16 in the Royal Society Guides and Handbooks series.

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 cont

This book brings together for the first time a large collection of essays (including three new ones) of a leading writer on diplomacy. They challenge the fashio

New Diplomatic History has turned into one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of research – especially with regard to early modern history. It has shown

The British Embassy in Istanbul was unique among other diplomatic missions in the long eighteenth century in being financed by a private commercial monopoly, th