British Diplomats and Diplomacy: 1688-1800. (Reviews of Books).

Jeremy Black. British Diplomats and Diplomacy 1688-1800. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 244. $70.00. ISBN 0-85989-613-7.

Students of eighteenth-century British diplomacy have long been aware of the need for a book that integrates the activities of individual diplomats within the administrative/organizational context of decision making and examines how this interaction affected the contours of Britain's foreign relations throughout the Georgian period as a whole. The only work on this topic, D. B. Horn's The British Diplomatic Service, 1689-1789 (1961), is now ...

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