Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey
Autor T. G. Otteen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 apr 2022
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 Europedescribes 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 calledThe 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141991474
ISBN-10: 014199147X
Pagini: 752
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 014199147X
Pagini: 752
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Thomas
Otteis
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
acclaimedJuly
Crisis:The
World's
Descent
into
War,
Summer
1914andThe
Foreign
Office
Mind:
The
Making
of
British
Foreign
Policy
1865-1914.
He
has
been
an
adviser
to
the
Foreign
and
Commonwealth
Office.
Recenzii
outstanding
...
Otte's
colossal,
learned
and
measured
book
presents
a
powerful
case
for
the
defence...
It
is
true
that
Grey
failed
to
avert
war,
but
probably
nobody
could
have
succeeded.
As
Otte's
excellent
book
shows,
he
did
his
best.
No biography of Grey has ever been so thorough and scholarly as this
a magisterial account that is unlikely to be bettered
a very well written and comprehensive ... This scholarly, readable and objective book will be the standard biography of Sir Edward Grey for decades to come. It triumphantly gives him his proper desserts as an eminent Edwardian gentleman who did his best to save his country from what he knew would be a catastrophic war
InStatesman of Europe- the first full biography for half a century - T. G. Otte offers a sensitive and elegant portrait of our longest-serving foreign secretary (11 years on the trot): a politician whose principled pragmatism and sense of civic duty strike an appealing, if elegiac, note in 2020.
Thomas Otte, in thiscompendious and elegant biography, paints a portrait of a deeply moral, patient and conscientious figure who did not love the world of high politics, but felt it his duty to pursue a role in public life and did so for 48 years. ...Otte's is a rich and rounded portrait of Grey, whom he restore[s] to his place as a humane and dutiful Liberal politician of the old school
This book is a reading for our times. It is a stalwart defence of politics as the careful, sensitive and pragmatic management of constant change, and of political history as an education in these truths ... it makes a significant mark.
Otte has already made a name for himself with a series of books and publications on British foreign policy, and this biography,Statesman of Europe(2020), can be regarded as the provisional crown on his work.
Edward Grey belonged to an era when British foreign policy carried global consequences. Most importantly, in July 1914 he led international efforts to forestall war. In T.G.Otte, Grey has found a historian whose fluency, scholarship and empathy match his subject's principled and pragmatic diplomacy. Otte unravels Grey's enigmas - his marriage, his preference for rural life over politics and above all his thinking on war and peace. InStatesman of Europe,now much the fullest and most authoritative account of Grey's life, he has brought to the man the poise and balance that Grey sought for his country.
No biography of Grey has ever been so thorough and scholarly as this
a magisterial account that is unlikely to be bettered
a very well written and comprehensive ... This scholarly, readable and objective book will be the standard biography of Sir Edward Grey for decades to come. It triumphantly gives him his proper desserts as an eminent Edwardian gentleman who did his best to save his country from what he knew would be a catastrophic war
InStatesman of Europe- the first full biography for half a century - T. G. Otte offers a sensitive and elegant portrait of our longest-serving foreign secretary (11 years on the trot): a politician whose principled pragmatism and sense of civic duty strike an appealing, if elegiac, note in 2020.
Thomas Otte, in thiscompendious and elegant biography, paints a portrait of a deeply moral, patient and conscientious figure who did not love the world of high politics, but felt it his duty to pursue a role in public life and did so for 48 years. ...Otte's is a rich and rounded portrait of Grey, whom he restore[s] to his place as a humane and dutiful Liberal politician of the old school
This book is a reading for our times. It is a stalwart defence of politics as the careful, sensitive and pragmatic management of constant change, and of political history as an education in these truths ... it makes a significant mark.
Otte has already made a name for himself with a series of books and publications on British foreign policy, and this biography,Statesman of Europe(2020), can be regarded as the provisional crown on his work.
Edward Grey belonged to an era when British foreign policy carried global consequences. Most importantly, in July 1914 he led international efforts to forestall war. In T.G.Otte, Grey has found a historian whose fluency, scholarship and empathy match his subject's principled and pragmatic diplomacy. Otte unravels Grey's enigmas - his marriage, his preference for rural life over politics and above all his thinking on war and peace. InStatesman of Europe,now much the fullest and most authoritative account of Grey's life, he has brought to the man the poise and balance that Grey sought for his country.