Nicht aus der Schweiz? Besuchen Sie lehmanns.de
Statesman of Europe - T. G. Otte

Statesman of Europe

A Life of Sir Edward Grey

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
896 Seiten
2023
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-199147-4 (ISBN)
CHF 34,90 inkl. MwSt
'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and encapsulate the impending end of the nineteenth-century world.

The man who spoke them was Britain's longest-ever serving Foreign Secretary (in a single span of office) and one of the great figures of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Statesman of Europe describes the three decades before the First World War through the prism of his biography, which is based almost entirely on archival sources and presents a detailed account of the main domestic and international events, and of the main personalities of the era. In particular, it presents a fresh understanding of the approach to war in the years and months before its outbreak, and Grey's role in the unfolding of events.

Yet Grey's life was not all public affairs, momentous as those were. He disliked being in London, much preferring country life at Fallodon, his family estate in Northumberland, and displayed none of the ambition of his contemporaries (or successors). He attended assiduously to his duties as director of the Great North Eastern Railway, one of the transformative enterprises in industry and communications of the period, and wanted to spend as much time as he could fishing. Apart from his memoirs, the only book he wrote was called The Charm of Birds. This hinterland gave quality to his judgements, and made his character attractive to his contemporaries.

This important book is the definitive biography of one of the pivotal figures in European diplomacy, and a magnificent portrait of an age.

Thomas Otte is Professor of Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia and a leading historian of British foreign policy. He is the author or editor of some eighteen books, including the acclaimed July Crisis:The World's Descent into War, Summer 1914 and The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign Policy 1865-1914. He has been an adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 642 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-14-199147-X / 014199147X
ISBN-13 978-0-14-199147-4 / 9780141991474
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
Besichtigung einer Epoche

von Karl Schlögel

Buch | Hardcover (2023)
Carl Hanser (Verlag)
CHF 62,95