دانلود کتاب Servants of Diplomacy: A Domestic History of the Victorian Foreign Office

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Title Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nPreface\nAbbreviations\nIntroduction: An office of class and classification\nChapter 1: Keepers of the Office: Accommodation and domestic staff, 1782–1868\n Residents\n Pets, pests and other miscreants\n Riot and debauchery\nChapter 2: Keepers of the papers: The Librarian’s Department, 1801–68\n Arranging, methodizing and digesting\n Quite de Jack in office\n Much irregularity\n The hardest working man in Europe\n Unhappy spirit\n Misnomer’s heir\nChapter 3: Carriers of the papers: The King’s/Queen’s Messengers, 1795–1858\n Persons of a very subordinate class\n A change in the class of persons\n New ways for old\n Matters of fancy and caprice\n The end of superintendence\nChapter 4: Adjusting to the new: Accommodation and domestic staff, 1868–1914\n Servants of the new\n Theft, negligence and security\n Divisions of labour\n Pestilence, redolence and sustenance\nChapter 5: Managing the past: The Librarian’s Department, 1868–1914\n Salaries, supplementals and salvation\n Archives, arrears and registers\n Publishing the record\n After the Hertslets\n Custody, research (and arrears)\nChapter 6: Delivering the message: The foreign service messengers, 1858–1914\n Rewarding gentlemen\n Here today but gone tomorrow\n Testing their worth\n Going local, paying less\nConclusion: An office of distinction and domesticity\nBibliography\n Manuscript collections\n Printed documentary and reference works\n Monographs, memoirs and essay collections\n Articles and contributions\n Dissertations\n Newsprint\nIndex