Consuls in the Cold War

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54414-7 (ISBN)

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This book throws light on what diplomats did in the Cold War, and how they did it. It underlines the variety of diplomatic processes and actors, by paying attention to overlooked lowly consuls and consulates.

No studies currently exist on consuls and consulates (often dismissed as lowly figures in the diplomatic process) in the Cold War. Research into the work of these overlooked 'poor relations' offers the chance of new perspectives in the field of Cold War studies, exploring their role in representing their country’s interests in far flung and unexpected places and their support for particular communities of fellow nationals and itinerant travellers in difficulties. These unnoticed actors on the international stage played far more complicated roles than one generally imagines.

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Contributors are: Tina Tamman, David Schriffl, Ariane Knuesel , Lori Maguire, Laurent Cesari, Sue Onslow, Pedro Aires Oliveira, David Lee, and Marek Hańderek.

Sue Onslow, PhD, London School of Economics, is Director and Reader in Commonwealth History at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She has published extensively on the Cold War in Southern Africa. Her latest book, co-written with Martin Plaut, is Robert Mugabe (Ohio University Press, 2018). Lori Maguire, D.Phil Oxon, is Professor of British and American Studies at the University of Reims in France. She has published extensively in both French and English on the cultural Cold War and on Vietnam. Her latest book, co-edited with Susan Ball and Sébastien Lefait is Modern Representations of Sub-Saharan Africa (Routledge 2020).

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Sue Onslow and Lori Maguire

1 Consuls and Their Near Cousins

Sue Onslow and Lori Maguire

PART 1: Europe

2 The Accidental Consul: August Torma in Charge of Estonian Consular Affairs in London

Tina Tamman

3 The Austrian Consulate General in Bratislava during the Cold War

David Schriffl

4 “The Tea Merchant Has Returned”: The Intelligence Activities of the Chinese Consulate-General in Geneva

Ariane Knüsel

5 The North Vietnamese Trade Delegation in Paris: A Little-Known Actor in the Vietnam Conflict

Lori Maguire

PART 2: East and South Asia

6 Business as (Almost) Usual: The French Consulate General in Saigon during the Break of Diplomatic Relations Between France and the Republic of Vietnam, 1965–1973

Laurent Cesari

7 Our Man in Maymyo: British Consuls in Upper Burma, 1948–1956

Sue Onslow

8 Portuguese Consuls and Diplomats and the Coming of the People’s Republic of China, c.1945–1950

Pedro Aires Oliveira

9 Australia’s Window to China in the Cold War: The Trade Commission in Hong Kong

David Lee

10 The Polish Consulate in Shanghai: Its Official and Unofficial Role, 1954–1989

Marek Hańderek

11 Conclusion

Lori Maguire and Sue Onslow

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	New Perspectives on the Cold War ; 10
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	623 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	90-04-54414-3 / 9004544143
ISBN-13	978-90-04-54414-7 / 9789004544147
Zustand	Neuware