Consuls in the Cold War

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54414-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 623 g

Reihe: New Perspectives on the Cold War

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Onslow, Sue

Maguire, Lori

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations

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 Handerek

11 Conclusion

Lori Maguire and Sue Onslow

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).