Personal Politics in the Postwar World
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-28917-8 (ISBN)
Combining private and public source materials, Erlandsson foregrounds the political culture of diplomacy and highlights events and people which have been left off the official record. The book integrates the detailed study of behind-the-scenes diplomatic practice into the larger narrative of traditional diplomatic history, connecting social practices with political outcomes. Exploring how women’s tea drinking was used to achieve post-war foreign policy and how Rosa, a Guatemalan cook, contributed to the international standing of the Netherlands, it offers a more inclusive history by recognising the diplomatic work done by actors who were not diplomats. In doing so it demonstrates the ways in which diplomacy was class-bound, gendered and racialized, and proves that historicizing gender and cultural norms is crucial to understanding political and international history.
Susanna Erlandsson is a researcher at the Department of History of Uppsala University, Sweden, and editor-in-chief of the leading Swedish historical journal Historisk tidskrift. Her 2015 dissertation Window of Opportunity, a comparative study of Dutch and Swedish security ideas and strategies in the 1940s, won several awards. She has since published extensively on small states as well as on gender and diplomacy.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The personal politics of daily diplomacy
Diplomacy as a gendered institution
The micro study as method: background and materials
Conceptualizing trust as a bridge between personal and political
Setting the scene
Part I. The diplomatic couple
1. The persistent notion of the incorporated wife
2. In love and diplomacy
3. Carte blanche? Diplomatic secrecy and marital trust
4. The diplomatic couple as template
Concluding remarks on the diplomatic couple
II. The diplomatic home
5. Homemaking for diplomats
6. Domestic staff
7. The home as a diplomatic arena
Concluding remarks on the diplomatic home
Part III. Dinner diplomacy
8. Dinner diplomacy as an everyday practice
9. Diplomatic food
Concluding remarks on dinner diplomacy
Part IV. Diplomatic aptitude
10. Diplomatic appearances
11. Diplomatic discourse
Concluding remarks on diplomatic aptitude
Conclusion: Behind the scenes of building the postwar world
Everyday power structures in Western diplomacy
Political impact of personal relations
Diplomacy as a likeminded institution
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.08.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 15 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-28917-5 / 1350289175 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-28917-8 / 9781350289178 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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