TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jenkins,Brian
TI  - Lord Lyons: a diplomat in an age of nationalism and war 
SN  - 9780773596351
AV  - DA565.L86 J45 2014eb
U1  - 327.42092 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons,
KW  - Diplomats
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Diplomatic and consular service, British
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
KW  - Diplomatic history
KW  - Diplomates
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Service diplomatique et consulaire britannique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Guerre franco-allemande, 1870-1871
KW  - Histoire diplomatique
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - International
KW  - International Relations
KW  - General
KW  - Historical
KW  - fast
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1837-1901
KW  - United States
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - Relations extérieures
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-525) and index; Beginnings -- Rome -- Envoy extraordinary and minister Plenipotentiary -- The United States -- The Disunited States -- The American Civil War -- Crisis -- Intervention? -- Marking time -- Ambassador to the sublime Porte -- To the diplomatic summit -- Ambassador to a liberlizing empire -- The fall of the second empire -- Monarchy or republic? -- The third republic -- Endings
N2  - The British ambassador in Washington during the US Civil War and ambassador in Paris before and after the Franco-Prussian war, Lord Lyons (1817-1887) was one of the most important diplomats of the Victorian period. Although frequently featured in histories of the United States and Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century, and in discussions and analyses of British foreign policy, he has remained an ill-defined figure. In Lord Lyons: A Diplomat in an Age of Nationalism and War, Brian Jenkins explains the man and examines his career. Based on a staggering study of primary sources, he presents a convincing portrait of a subject who rarely revealed himself personally. Though he avoided publicity, Lyons came to be regarded as his nation's premier diplomat as his career took him to the heart of the great international issues and crises of his generation. As minister to the United States he played a vital role in preserving Anglo-American peace and was a powerful voice opposing Anglo-French intervention in the Civil War. While ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, he helped to prevent French control of the Suez Canal then under construction. In France, he maintained an amiable and constructive relationship with a bitter nation struggling to reorganize itself and its constitution after the Franco-Prussian War. For many historians Lord Lyons has been difficult to ignore but hard to admire. In rescuing him as a truly important historical figure, Jenkins details for the first time the personal and public strategies Lyons employed through decades of exemplary diplomatic service on both sides of the Atlantic --
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