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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Envoys"”.
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Presidential, Post-Imperial and Personal: Envoy Diplomacy in Japan, 1960s-1980s
… a case-study-led analysis of the role of special envoys in Japanese postwar diplomacy based on multiarchival research in Japan, the UK, the US, and South Korea. It examines how and why, in the early postwar period, Japanese prime ministers often relied on trusted individuals with no diplomatic …
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THE ROAD TO VIENNA: HABSBURG AND OTTOMAN STATECRAFT DURING THE TIME OF GRAND VIZIER KARA MUSTAFA PAŞA (1676-1683)
… the peace negotiations between the Habsburg envoys and Kara Mustafa Paşa’s court before the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, the two state’s diplomatic postures were shaped by their different court structures. At the end, in response to the religiously-oriented explanations of early …
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The Missionary Spirit of Gregory the Great as Evidenced by His Interest in the Angles
… the place of honor? Rather than his personal envoys, Augustine and the forty monks, is Gregory described by the Roman Martyrology as he "who brought the English to the true Faith. "
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The fire in the mind: memory, myth & matter
… fires. By crafting artworks as intimate envoys for larger existential concerns and human agency in a world fundamentally mediated by fire, I engage with fire as a generative empirical phenomenon and its accompanying deep theoretical and philosophical heritage. Ever since fire was first …
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The Representation of Japan in British POW films of the 1950s
… This thesis further reveals that Japan's envoys endeavoured to present the country as a trustworthy state before the United Nations in an attempt to inhibit the circulation of negative images, while Britain, in the process of reconfiguring rapidly changing relations to its colonies and …
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The networked polis: Unravelling Magnesia's place in the Hellenistic world through the digital reconstruction of journeys.
… building programme and dispatched religious envoys (theoroi) to more than 200 cities to inaugurate a panhellenic festival. A body of inscriptions reveals a series of journeys as far afield as Sicily and the Persian Gulf. I investigate the factors that led to Magnesia’s decision to raise its …
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Sights/Sites of Spectacle: Anglo/Asante Appropriations, Diplomacy and Displays of Power 1816-1820
… will be compared and contrasted with other envoys’ accounts that were written between 1816 and 1820 in order that systematic practices and procedures and consistent patterns of behaviour can be identified and interrogated. The adoption of this historical ethnographic approach demonstrates …
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Negotiating the border in Song China: foreign policy, border management, and border-crossings, 1005-1122
… by officials, and travelogues written by envoys, this thesis addresses several questions: How was the border between the Song and the Liao established in the first place? Ever since its establishment, how did both states stabilize and maintain the border? What were the developments of …
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<i>Cangianti</i> and Shot Silk: Material Influence on Artistic Practice in Central Italian Painting from 1300 to 1550
… found their way to Europe via Mongol envoys; these cloths of silk and gold inspired the industries in Lucca, Florence, and Venice to great heights of creativity and skill. The ambiguities surrounding certain cloth names, including <em>purpura</em>, are discussed in this chapter; …
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Political Communication Practices of the Transylvanian Saxon Towns, c. 1467–1526
This thesis focuses on the diplomatic strategies employed by the three main Transylvanian Saxon towns of Sibiu, Brașov, and Bistrița during the second half of the reign of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (r. 1458–90) and the era of the Jagiellonian kings Vladislaus II (r. 1490–1516) and Louis II …