British Diplomacy and the Descent into Chaos

1. Introduction
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2. Constantinople: ‘A Very Wonderful Place’
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3. Like a Plant Uprooted: Life in Peking
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4. ‘People Who Squeeze and People Who May Be Squeezed’: Across Mongolia, 1908
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5. Bucharest and St Petersburg
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6. Tehran 1911–14 — ‘Into the Vortex’
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7. London, Sofia and Athens, and the ‘Episode of the “Floating Bag”’
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8. Tangier — ‘A Confusion of the East and the West’
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9. A ‘Hardly Used Genus’: First Secretary in Buenos Aires
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10. A Climacteric
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11. Epilogue
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Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Political History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History, Literature, general, Diplomacy