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The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
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The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State Hardback - 2006

by Jonathan Wright

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This volume traces the ambassadors' story from ancient Greece and Ashoka's empire in India to the European Enlightenment and the birth of the nation state. It provides an account of the earliest ambassadors, who were at once diplomats, explorers and chroniclers of exotic civilisations.

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  • Title The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
  • Author Jonathan Wright
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, London
  • Publication date 2006
  • ISBN 9780007173433 / 0007173431
  • Category History - General History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.209

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Harperpress, 2006. First edition-first printing.. Hardcover. New/New. Mint condition.HarperPress,2006.First edition-first printing.Tan hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in mint condition.Illustrated with b/w photos,drawings.340pp including Notes,select bibliography,index.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Product Description: This is an authoritative and entertaining account of the earliest ambassadors, who were at once diplomats, explorers and chroniclers of exotic civilisations. In this book of extraordinary journeys and epochal encounters, Jonathan Wright traces the ambassadors' story from Ancient Greece and Ashoka's empire in India to the European Enlightenment and the birth of the nation state. He shows us Byzantine envoys dining with Attila the Hun, thirteenth-century monks journeying from Flanders to the Asian steppe, and Tudor ambassadors grappling with the chaos of Reformation. He examines the rituals… Read more
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Harperpress. First edition-first printing. Hardcover. New/New. Mint condition.HarperPress,2006.First edition-first printing.Tan hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in mint condition.Illustrated with b/w photos,drawings.340pp including Notes,select bibliography,index.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Product Description: This is an authoritative and entertaining account of the earliest ambassadors, who were at once diplomats, explorers and chroniclers of exotic civilisations. In this book of extraordinary journeys and epochal encounters, Jonathan Wright traces the ambassadors' story from Ancient Greece and Ashoka's empire in India to the European Enlightenment and the birth of the nation state. He shows us Byzantine envoys dining with Attila the Hun, thirteenth-century monks journeying from Flanders to the Asian steppe, and Tudor ambassadors grappling with the chaos of Reformation. He examines the… Read more
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