Diplomats and Dreamers - The Stancioff Family in Bulgarian History

Informationen zum Autor Mari A. Firkatian (Ph.D. Indiana University) is Associate Professor at the University of Hartford, Hillyer College. Klappentext This book chronicles a family of diplomats who experienced the world in transition. Subjects of capricious fate, they forged a destiny as a family that overcame some of the most cataclysmic events of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung This book chronicles a family of diplomats who experienced the world in transition. Subjects of capricious fate! they forged a destiny as a family that overcame some of the most cataclysmic events of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Part 3 Part I: A Bulgarian Diplomat and a French Courtier Chapter 4 1 Mass Culture and Politics Chapter 5 2 The Young Family Chapter 6 3 Growing Up Chapter 7 4 Wars and More Wars Part 8 Part II: A Second Generation of Diplomats Chapter 9 5 Growing Up Fast: World War Chapter 10 6 The Disillusionments of Peacetime Chapter 11 7 International Kid to First Woman Diplomat Chapter 12 8 Admirable English Chapter 13 9 The End of and Era Chapter 14 Epilogue Chapter 15 Bibliography Chapter 16 Map Chapter 17 Index Chapter 18 About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Mari A. Firkatian, Firkatian Mari A.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2008
• EAN: 9780761840695
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-4069-5
• No. of pages: 359
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; History, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern