The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State

ISBN-10: 0007173431
ISBN-13: 9780007173433
Series: The Ambassadors
Pages: 336
Language: English
Published: 2006
Publisher: HarperPress
Author: Jonathan Wright

Description

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.