1st Edition
Age of Louis XIV The Rise of Modern Diplomacy
Edited By William James Roosen
Copyright 2013
217 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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William James Roosen has written the first general study of European diplomacy in the age of Louis XIV which is based on the actual practices and institutions of that era, rather than on the writing of early theoreticians. Though the seventeenth century may not have been a period of great innovations in international diplomacy, it provides us with an important illustration of the "workings of a... Read more
INTRODUCTION, I THE ST ATES OF EUROPE, THEIR DIPLOMACY AND WARS, II KINGS AND MINISTERS: THE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION, OF DIPLOMACY AND CREATION OF FOREIGN POLICIES, III AMBASSADORS, IV SECOND CLASS DIPLOMATS: LOW IN PRESTIGE, HIGH IN IMPORTANCE, V A TYPICAL EARLY MODERN EMBASSY, VI INFORMATION: IMPORTANT OBJECTIVE OF DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY, VII THE VARIETY OF DIPLOMATIC DUTIES, CONCLUSION, CHRONOLOGY, APPENDIX, BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Roosen, William James
