Author : John Dickie
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
Provides a history of the role of the British Consul, that has played an important part in world affairs. This book describes role of the appointment in serving with trading houses as the Muscovy, the Levant, and the East India Companies. It also presents how the Counsel had to face challenges such as the fallout of the package holiday revolution.
Author : Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Diplomatic and consular service
ISBN :
Author : LANDY
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 2022-03-14
Category :
ISBN : 9786164510593
In 1856, just months after Britain and Siam had finalized the historic Bowring trade treaty that would prevent the countries colonization, the violent death of a Siamese official at the new British consulate threatens to scuttle the deal and lead to war. The King and the Consul explores UK and Thai archives to reveal the twists, turns and tensions of this little-known episode that pitted Thailand's renowned King Mongkut, Rama IV, against the first British Consul, Charles Hillier. The crisis was resolved without war, but not without cost for the participants who suffered unintended tragic outcomes. By examining the background to this tragedy, the book reveals how history has often overlooked the importance of an issue that lay behind it the right of foreigners to own land in the country, and issue that continues to be a thorn in the side of Thailand's foreign relations to this day. "The tragic deaths in 1856 of the first British consul to Siam and a Siamese official had an unusual impact on Thailand's property law and Britain's diplomatic presence in the country. This intriguing book could only be written by someone with long residence in Bangkok, through knowledge of Thailand's property law, and enthusiasm for history. Simon Landy gives us a slice of legal and diplomatic history with close attention to its human dimensions. An unusual and lovely read" - Chris Baker
Author : John Pownall Reeves
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9888208322
When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941 Macao was left as a tiny isolated enclave on the China Coast surrounded by Japanese-held territory. As a Portuguese colony, Macao was neutral, and John Reeves, the British Consul, could remain there and continue his work despite being surrounded in all directions by his country’s enemy. His main task was to provide relief to the 9,000 or more people who crossed the Pearl River from Hong Kong to take refuge in Macao and who had a claim for support from the British Consul. The core of this book is John Reeves’ memoir of those extraordinary years and of his tireless efforts to provide food, shelter and medical care for the refugees. He coped with these challenges as Macao’s own people faced starvation. Despite Macao’s neutrality, it was thoroughly infiltrated by Japanese agents and, marked for assassination, Reeves had to have armed guards as he went about his business. He also had to navigate the complexities of multiple intelligence agencies—British, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese Nationalist—in a place that was described as the Casablanca of the Far East.
Author : Christopher Dickey
Publisher : Crown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307887278
"The little-known story of a British diplomat who serves as a spy in South Carolina at the dawn of the Civil War, posing as a friend to slave-owning aristocrats when he was actually telling Britain not to support the Confederacy"--
Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2000-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0684871254
Relates the story of the politically motivated kidnapping of Charlie Fortnum, a minor British functionary in Argentina.
Author : R. G. Crocombe
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789820201163
"The world's most powerful nation, and more than a dozen of the world's smallest, have been interacting for 200 years. Beginning with whaling in the 1700's, it has continued through many trades, investment, eduction, churches, media, diplomacy and strategic issues. As significant as the movement of Americans to the Pacific is that of 150,000 Pacific Islanders to the USA. This important book documents the growing interaction with the USA to the pinnacle of involvement in World War II. The importance of USA to the Pacific Islands remained high until the end of the 1980's but has declined since then on almost every dimension. While USA will remain significant for the Pacific Islands, its relative profile will continue to decline." -- Back cover.
Author : G. R. Berridge
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 900417639X
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 contribution of the British Embassy in Turkey to Britain s diplomatic relationship with that state, this book shows this to be false. Part A analyses the evolution of the embassy as a working unit up to the First World War: the buildings, diplomats, dragomans, consular network, and communications. Part B examines how, without any radical changes except in its communications, it successfully met the heavy demands made on it in the following century, for example by playing a key role in a multitude of bilateral negotiations and providing cover to secret agents and drugs liaison officers.
Author : Lucia Patrizio Gunning
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754660231
The book tells the story of how the British consular service in the Aegean, in the years of the British protectorate of the Ionian Islands (1815-1864) became an agency for the retrieval, excavation and collection of antiquities eventually destined for the British Museum. Exploring the historical, political and diplomatic circumstances that allowed the consular service to develop from a chartered company, into a state run institution under the direction of the Foreign Office, this book provides a unique perspective on the intersection of state policy and the collecting of antiquities.
Author : E. W. A. Tuson
Publisher :
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Consular law
ISBN :
