The ambassadors: from ancient Greece to the nation state /
Jonathan Wright
- London: HarperCollins, 2006.
- xiii, 336 p.: ill.
The Ancient World: 1. Glorious Hermes, herald of the deathless gods -- 2. Greeks and Indika -- 3. A Sanskrit Machiavelli -- 4. The Son of heaven -- The Middle Centuries: 5. Charlemagne's elephant -- 6. Byzantium -- Medieval: 7. The crown of thorns -- 8. A rooftop in Naples, Europe and the Mongols -- 9. The new diplomacy -- Renaissance: 10. Reformation -- 11. Schisms -- 12. An Iliad of miseries: Europe and the Ottomans
9780007173433
History--World--Leaders & Notable People Political History--International & World Politics--Diplomacy