Charles Whitworth

Charles Whitworth

Diplomat in the Age of Peter the Great

Hartley, Janet M.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

11/2002

258

Dura

Inglês

9780754604808

15 a 20 dias

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Contents: Introduction; Charles Whitworth: a diplomatic career; The German lands: clerk, envoy and prisoner (1696-1704); Russia: trade, tobacco and machine-breaking (1705-1712); Russia: the first Anglo-Russian diplomatic crisis (1705-1712); Whitworth on Russia in a period of change; Britain, the Empire and Prussia: negotiations south and north (1713-1717); The United Provinces: the Quadruple Alliance (1717-1719); Prussia: war and peace in the north (1719-1722); Cambrai: not with a bang but a whimper (1722-1725); Epilogue: 1725; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
Young Man;whitworths;William III;papers;Whitworth's Paper;state;East Indies;foreign;Quadruple Alliance;great;Baron Sigismund Von Herberstein;northern;Secretary Of State;war;Great Northern War;xii;English Merchant Community;southern;Charles XII;netherlands;Hanoverian Interests;balance of power;Hanoverian Ministers;Charles Whitworth's diplomatic career;Southern Netherlands;early eighteenth century;Sir Charles Hedges;Viscount Bolingbroke;Russian Tsar Peter the Great;Charles Montagu;Swedish Fleet;Navy Board;Anglo-Russian Trade;King's Scholars;Secret Articles;Ostend Company;Successful Diplomatic Career;United Provinces;Tobacco Contract