“A Kind of Black Hole”?: Commercial Diplomacy Before 1914

T. G. Otte

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-46581-8_2

“A Kind of Black Hole”?: Commercial Diplomacy Before 1914

T. G. Otte

School of History and Art History

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Abstract

Commercial diplomacy is the Cinderella branch of international history. To varying degrees, it remains neglected, ignored or ill-used. Treated by most diplomatic historians with a sort of disdain, which the many critics of the nineteenth-century Foreign Office imagined to be the department’s natural attitude towards ‘trade’ and those in it, it has not fared any better in the hands of economic historians, who usually see little cause to dirty their hands with past political machinations, let alone to plumb the depths of international politics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century
Editors	John Fisher, Effie G. H. Pedaliou, Richard Smith
Place of Publication	Basingstoke and New York
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	2
Pages	25-68
Number of pages	44
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-137-46581-8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-137-46580-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46581-8_2
Publication status	Published - 17 Feb 2017

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“A Kind of Black Hole”?: Commercial Diplomacy Before 1914. / Otte, T. G.

The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century. ed. / John Fisher; Effie G. H. Pedaliou; Richard Smith. Basingstoke and New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. p. 25-68.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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