Charles Whitworth : Diplomat in the Age of Peter the Great (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Charles Whitworth: a diplomatic career; The German lands: clerk, envoy and prisoner (1696-1704); Russia: trade, tobacco and machine-breaking (1705-1712); Russia: the first Anglo-Russian diplomatic crisis (1705-1712); Whitworth on Russia in a period of change; Britain, the Empire and Prussia: negotiations south and north (1713-1717); The United Provinces: the Quadruple Alliance (1717-1719); Prussia: war and peace in the north (1719-1722); Cambrai: not with a bang but a whimper (1722-1725); Epilogue: 1725; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.