1st Edition
Charles Whitworth Diplomat in the Age of Peter the Great
By Janet M. Hartley
Copyright 2002
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
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In 1700 the armies of the Russian Tsar Peter the Great and Charles XII of Sweden met at Narva to fight the first battle of what was to be known as the Great Northern War. Although this first engagement was to result in a humiliating defeat for Peter, it marked the start of a struggle that twenty years later would see Russia emerge as a major power and radically alter the balance of power in... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Charles Whitworth: a diplomatic career; The German lands: clerk, envoy and prisoner (1696-1704); Russia: trade, tobacco and machine-breaking (1705-1712); Russia: the first Anglo-Russian diplomatic crisis (1705-1712); Whitworth on Russia in a period of change; Britain, the Empire and Prussia: negotiations south and north (1713-1717); The United Provinces: the Quadruple Alliance (1717-1719); Prussia: war and peace in the north (1719-1722); Cambrai: not with a bang but a whimper (1722-1725); Epilogue: 1725; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Janet M. Hartley
'Janet M. Hartley makes abundant use of Whitworth's rich papers to offer a rounded portrait of a well-educated early modern English gentleman-diplomat...' International History Review 'Charles Whitworth [...] has long been neglected by historians. Janet Hartley's excellent biography of him has now filled that void... this book is invaluable for historians interested in Russian history, in general economic or diplomatic history of that time, and for non-specialists who would simply enjoy an erudite and witty biography.' Slavonic and East European Review
