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The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800
This project traces the emergence of the spy in the literature of the eighteenth century, arguing for spying\u27s ideological transition within the cultural and literary imagination from a profession to a way of being. At stake in The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800 is the idea that surveillance, spying, and state secrecy inform and meaningfully intersect with eighteenth century narrative fiction. Through analysis of a variety of surveillance fictions, including spy narratives, financial tell-alls, periodicals, amatory secret histories, and domestic and Gothic fictions, I incorporate the idea of surveillance into eighteenth-century literary history in order to more thoroughly understand how the genre speaks back to eighteenth-century conceptions of gender, class, and selfhood
Italian opinions about Great Britain during the period of the Italian renaissance
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Sir Charles Hanbury Williams and European diplomacy (1747-58)
The subject of this work was originally suggested to me a short time
before I graduated. At first my intention was to collect material
for a biography of Williams,. but I abandoned this idea almost
immediately, and decided to confine my attention to the diplomatic
side of his activities. This was the only aspect of his career which
really interested me, and there was, as I soon discovered, ample
material for its study in the Public Record Office and the MS. Department of the British Museum, where I worked during the first of my
postgraduate years.The material collected there during that first year and many later
visits to London, after the perusal of hundreds of volumes of letters,
despatches, and other private and official papers, forms the basis of
this work. It has, however, been supplemented to a considerable
extent by the results of two visits to the Archives de la Ministére
des Affaires Etrangeres at Paris, and of a visit to the Newport (Mon.)
Public Library, which possesses a MS. collection including, so far as
can be ascertained, practically all Williams's official papers as a British minister, as well as the private diary which he kept at Berlin
and some other private papers. Permission to examine another part of
Williams's papers, which is at present in the possession of Mr T.F.
Fenwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, was refused.As my knowledge of the authorities and the scope of this study in
European diplomacy gradually widened, Williams inevitably ceased to be
the central figure, and was merged in the European background. I
would gladly dismiss him altogether from my work, but his career
is the only thread on which my account of Britain's diplomatic
relations with certain continental states can be hung. No one can
be more conscious than I of the obvious weakness of the method of
treatment which circumstances have forced me to adopt in PartI.
As Williams moves about from Dresden to Berlin, Warsaw, Grodno, and
Vienna the chapters are necessarily disconnected in their subject
matter. This difficulty is not present to the same extent after
Williams has settled down at Petersburg, and Part II deals with a single theme - the action and reaction between Petersburg and
Europe during the Diplomatic Revolution and the opening of the
Seven Years war
Sir Nicholas Throckmorton: A Diplomatic Advisor to Queen Elizabeth
This study concentrates on Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, a resident ambassador sent to France in the first years of Elizabeth\u27s reign. He had never held a high level government position before this time, but was remembered for his ability to give advice on matters of foreign policy. Typically historians have approached the subject of the Queen\u27s policy from a top down perspective. This thesis attempts to redress this view by looking at how diplomacy was conducted through the eyes of a diplomat.
The culture of diplomacy created statesmen and foreign policy advisors out of the diplomats in Elizabeth\u27s reign. Ambassadors and diplomats like Throckmorton provided incalculable service to their monarch. Throckmorton utilized the opportunities for Elizabeth\u27s success in securing her kingdom from those who sought to exploit the weakness of her position. Among the topics discussed in this work are diplomatic culture, advice, and early Elizabethan foreign policy
A short student's guide to English literature. 2 : 1640-1700
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