دانلود کتاب British Diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the present (Diplomatic Studies, 3)

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CONTENTS
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Maps
Illustrations
Introduction
PART A EVOLUTION
Chapter One \'The English Palace\'
The early embassy
Home ownership—and its woes
The difficult birth of the Smith-Barry embassy
Mixed reviews and another fi re
The embassy \'fleet\'
Chapter Two Diplomats
The ambassador
The domestic family
The official family
The importance of size
Chapter Three Dragomans
Raising the cry for \'natural-born Englishmen\'
Oriental secretary and fi rst dragoman: \"two bad public servants instead of one good one\"
The weakening of the dragomanate
Levantine rearguard
No career for the dragomans
Chapter Four Consuls
Creation of the network
Trading consuls, and Levantines
Hornby\'s Supreme Consular Court
The founding of the Levant Service
Political consuls
The consulate-general: controversy and contraction
\"The step-child of the Foreign Office\"
Chapter Five Communications
\"Ye surest, and most speedy conveyance you can\"
The consequences of poor communications
Reducing the need for good communications
Searching for improvements
\"The telegraph frenzy\"
PART B TWENTIETH CENTURY ROLE
Introduction to Part B
Chapter Six Foreigners and Sailors, 1914–24
The British Section, 1914–18
The British High Commission, 1918–24
Chapter Seven Reluctantly to Ankara, 1924–38
A dragomanate by any other name
An \'embassy\' in spite of everything
Ankara in spite of everything
Mosul 1926—\"disposing of the Turk\"
Two-centre embassy
Making bricks without straw
Political reporting and intelligence gathering
Losing the monopoly of bilateral agreements
Chapter Eight Embassy at War, 1939–44
Negotiating the Anglo-Turkish alliance
Following up the treaty
Militarization of the embassy
Frustrating SOE
Struggling to coordinate propaganda
Juggling high-level visitors
Scripting a spy fi lm: the \'Cicero\' aff air
Chapter Nine Business as Usual, 1945–74
Return to peacetime mode
NATO, payments, and planes
A typical medium-sized post
Cyprus: \"the main preoccupation of the Embassy\"
Still juggling high-level visitors
Chapter Ten Business above all? 1974–2008
Trouble with trucks
Still a \'comprehensive post\'
Drugs and immigrants
Two-centre embassy once more
Conclusion
Appendices
1 British ambassadors to Turkey, 1583–2008
2 Turkish ambassadors to Britain, 1793–2008
3 Royal instructions to Lord Chandos, 29 December 1680
4 British consular posts and consular officers in the Ottoman Empire, 1852
5 Comparative statement of extraordinary expenses of HM Embassy at Constantinople, 1857–69
6 Cumberbatch\'s letter to Waugh from the US Embassy in Constantinople, March 1915
7 Non-career staff employed at the British Consulate-General, Istanbul, 1946
8 British consuls-general at Istanbul, 1806–2008
9 Anglo-Turkish bilateral agreements (with place of signing) presented to the House of Commons, 1945–2000
List of works cited
Index