Newton, Lord. Lord Lyons: a record of British diplomacy. In two volumes. Vol. I-II. [Complete].

[English non-fiction, XIX century, history of dyplomacy, biography]. Contents: vol. I: -I. Early Life: -II. Washington, 1859-1860: -III. Outbreakof Civil War - The `Trent` Case, 1860-1861: -IV. Course of the Civil War, 1862-1865: -V. Constantinople, 1865-1867: -VI. The Second Empire, 1867-1869: -VII. Secret Proposals for Disarmament, 1870: -VIII. The Franco-German War: -IX. The Government of National Defence, 1870-1871: vol. II: -X. The Third Republic, 1871-1873: -XI. Marshal MacMahon`s Presidency, 1873-1875: -XII. The Eastern Question, 1876-1878: -XIII. M. Grevy`s Presidency, 1878-1879: -XIV. The Revival of France, 1880-1881: -XV. Arabi`s Rebellion, 1881-1882: -XVI. Anglophobia, 1883-1885: -XVII. The Last Year`s Work, 1886-1887: -Appendix: -Index. [Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1st Earl Lyons (1817-1887) was a British diplomat, who was the favourite diplomat of Queen Victoria, during the four great crises of the 2nd half of the XIXth century: Italian unification, the American Civil War, the Eastern Question, and the replacement of France by Germany as the dominant Continental power following the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. Lyons resolved the Trent Affair during the American Civil War: and contributed to the Special Relationship and to the Entente Cordiale: and for predicting, 32 years before World War I, the occurrence of an imperial war between France and Germany that was to destroy Britain`s international dominance. Lyons is considered to be the exemplar of the `Foreign Office mind` who created a canon of practical norms of diplomacy, including the necessity for nominal neutrality in domestic party politics and for private correspondence with Cabinet ministers. Lyons founded the `Lyons School` of British diplomacy. | Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton (1857-1942) was a British diplomat and Conservative politician who served as Paymaster General during the First World War. He`s an author of 2 biographies and memoires entitled `Retrospection`].

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