Diplomacy and intelligence in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean world

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Diplomacy and intelligence during the early modern and modern periods -- 1 The Swedish consulate in Tripoli and information-gathering on diplomacy, everyday life and the slave trade, 1795-1844 -- 2 Hanmer Warrington and imperial intelligence-gathering in Tripoli, 1814-36 -- 3 The Russian consulate in the Morea and the outbreak of the Greek Revolution, 1816-21 -- 4 Austrian intelligence and the national interest in the Mediterranean region during the early nineteenth century -- 5 Playing the liberal game: Sir James Hudson in Italy, 1852-85 -- 6 The Dutch consul J. A. Kruyt and the policing of Muslim pilgrims in Jeddah, c.1858-88 -- 7 Intelligence and conquest in nineteenth-century French North Africa -- 8 To save a Kaiser: Imperial German intelligence and protective security in the Orient,1898 -- 9 A Japanese protégé in Pera: Fukuchi Gen'ichiro's reports on the mixed courts of Turkey and Egypt -- 10 Annual reports of United States consuls in the Holy Land as sources for the study of nineteenth-century Palestine -- Index

"Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World examines the activities of diplomats in the expansion of their home country's informal imperial ambitions. Taking a comparative approach, the book combines a focus on the extension of the informal British Empire with an exploration of the imperial ambitions of other states, such as France, Austro-Hungary and Japan. The authors combine approaches from diplomatic history, intelligence history and microhistory in order to give new insights into the Mediterranean as a 'contested space' between competing informal empires. This study will be of great interest to anyone interested in the history of the Mediterranean region during the 19th century."--Bloomsbury Publishing