Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sluga, Glenda; James, Carolyn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 explores the role of women as agents of diplomacy in the trans-Atlantic world since the early modern age. Chapters cover a wide range of geographical contexts, including Europe, Russia, Britain and the United States, and trace the diversity of women's activities and the significance of their contributions.

Through a selection of case studies, the book throws into new perspective the operations of political power in local and national domains. This book is essential reading for all those interested in the history of diplomacy and the rise of international politics over the past five centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317497028
• Artikelnr.: 43084029

Autorenporträt

Glenda Sluga is Professor of International History at the University of Sydney and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. She has published widely on the cultural history of international relations, the history of European nationalisms, gender history, and the history of identity and difference. Her publications include Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (2013), The Nation, Psychology and International Politics (2006), The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border (2001), and Gendering European History (2000). Carolyn James is Cassamarca Associate Professor in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University. She is the author of two books on the 15th-century Italian literary figure, Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti (1996 and 2002), a complete English translation and analysis of the late fourteenth century letters of Margherita Datini (co-authored with Antonio Pagliaro, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures. Acknowledgements. List of contributors. Introduction: The
Long International History of Women and Diplomacy Carolyn James and Glenda
Sluga 1. Women and Diplomacy in Renaissance Italy Carolyn James 2. Cousins
and Queens: Familial ties, political ambition and epistolary diplomacy in
Renaissance Europe Ellie Woodacre 3. Dynastic relations on an international
stage: Margaret de la Marck (1527-1599) and Arenberg family strategy during
the Dutch Revolt Mirella Marini 4. Lady Anne Fanshawe, Ambassadress of
England at the Court of Madrid (1664-1666) Laura Oliván Santaliestra 5.
Marriage Plots: Royal Women, Marriage Diplomacy, and International Politics
at the Spanish, French and Imperial Courts, 1665-1679 Silvia Z. Mitchell
6. "Paper negotiations": Women and Diplomacy in the Early Eighteenth
Century Corina Bastian 7. Women, diplomacy and international politics,
before and after the Congress of Vienna Glenda Sluga 8. The Tsar¿s Sister
as State Diplomat: Maria Pavlovna Between Weimar and St. Petersburg on the
Eve of the Congress of Vienna Franziska Schedewie 9. A 'Goodwill
Ambassador' in the Post-Napoleonic Era: Roxandra Edling-Sturdza on the
European Scene Stella Ghervas 10. Gendering Diplomatic History: Women in
the British Diplomatic Service, c.1919-1972 Helen McCarthy 11. Gender and
International Relations through the Lens of the League of Nations
(1919-1945) Madeleine Herren 12. Advocating for a feminist internationalism
between the wars Laura Beers 13. A Woman's Place is in the Embassy:
America's First Female Chiefs of Mission, 1933-64 Philip Nash 14. Vangie
Bruce's Diplomatic Salon: A Mid-Twentieth Century Portrait Kenneth
Weisbrode 15. The Performance of Diplomacy: The Residence, Gender, and
Diplomatic Wives in Late Twentieth-Century Sweden Nevra Biltekin. Index.