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Women, diplomacy and international politics since 1500 /

Women, diplomacy and international politics since 1500 / edited by Glenda Sluga and Carolyn James. - xviii, 273 pages : map (black and white), genealogical tables (black and white) - Women's and gender history . - Women's and gender history. .

Introduction : the long international history of women and diplomacy / Women and diplomacy in Renaissance Italy / Cousins and queens : familial ties, political ambition and epistolary diplomacy in Renaissance Europe / Dynastic relations on an international stage : Margaret de la Marck (1527-1599) and Arenberg family strategy during the Dutch Revolt / Lady Anne Fanshawe, Ambassadress of England at the Court of Madrid (1664-1666) / Marriage plots : royal women, marriage diplomacy, and international politics at the Spanish, French and Imperial Courts, 1665-1679 / "Paper negotiations" : women and diplomacy in the early eighteenth century / Women, diplomacy and international politics, before and after the Congress of Vienna / The Tsar's sister as state diplomat : Maria Pavlovna between Weimar and St. Petersburg on the eve of the Congress of Vienna / A ‘Goodwill Ambassador’ in the Post-Napoleonic era : Roxandra Edling-Sturdza on the European scene / Gendering diplomatic history : women in the British Diplomatic Service, circa 1919—1972 / Gender and international relations through the lens of the League of Nations (1919-1945) / Advocating for a feminist internationalism between the wars / A woman’s place is in the embassy : America’s first female chiefs of mission, 1933-64 / Vangie Bruce’s diplomatic salon : a mid-twentieth century portrait / The performance of diplomacy : the residence, gender, and diplomatic wives in late twentieth-century Sweden / Carolyn James and Glenda Sluga -- Carolyn James -- Ellie Woodacre -- Mirella Marini -- Laura Oliván Santaliestra -- Silvia Z. Mitchell -- Corina Bastian -- Glenda Sluga -- Franziska Schedewie -- Stella Ghervas -- Helen McCarthy -- Madeleine Herren -- Laura Beers -- Philip Nash -- Kenneth Weisbrode -- Nevra Biltekin.

9780415714655 9780415714648 9781315713113

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Women diplomats--History.--Europe
Women diplomats--History.
Women--Political activity--History.--Europe
Women--Political activity--History.
International relations--History.
World politics.


Europe--Foreign relations.

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