The Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-26631-5 (ISBN)
With a keen sense of the human interest, Lee A. Farrow demonstrates that this affair was one of the earliest significant complications in the relationship between Russia and the USA. Using a lively micro-historical approach and fresh materials such as the letters of Catacazy and of Secretary of State Hamilton Fish from archives in the USA, UK and Russia, Farrow explores 19th-century politics and diplomacy, and the pre-suffrage power of women in the political arena through an investigation of the Washington wives’ reactions to the controversial figure of Olga Catacazy. The result is a cutting-edge analysis of this pivotal episode in modern history.
Lee A. Farrow is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Auburn University-Montgomery, USA. She is the author of Seward's Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase (2016), Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke's Tour, 1871-1872 (2014) and Between Clan and Crown: The Struggle to Define Noble Property Rights in Imperial Russia (2005).
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. ‘Objectionable and Obnoxious’: Constantin Catacazy’s Early Life and Career
2. ‘Fictitious Pretentions’: The Perkins Claims
3. ‘The Intermeddling of the Russian Minister’: The Alabama Claims
4. ‘Falsehood, Intrigue and Hostility’: Catacazy’s Breaches of Protocol
5. ‘She Had a Story and a Past’: Olga Catacazy and the Washington Wives
6. ‘A Thorough Mischief Maker’: The Recall of Catacazy
7. ‘He … Smirked Too Much to be Dignified’: The Last Years of Constantin Catacazy
8. Conclusion: The Significance of the Catacazy Affair
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.04.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | Library of Modern Russia |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-26631-0 / 1350266310 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-26631-5 / 9781350266315 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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