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United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers

1775-1938

By: Ralph Edward Weber

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United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers

1775-1938

By: Ralph Edward Weber

United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers, 1775-1938 is the first basic reference work on American diplomatic cryptography. Weber's research in national and private archives in the Americas and Europe has uncovered more than one hundred codes and ciphers. Beginning with the American Revolution, these secret systems masked confidential diplomatic correspondence and reports.During the period between 1775 and 1938, both codes and ciphers were employed. Ciphers were frequently used for American diplomatic and military correspondence during the American Revolution. At that time, a system was popular among American statesmen whereby a common book, such as a specific dictionary, was used by two correspondents who encoded each word in a message with three numbers. In this system, the first number indicated the page of the book, the second the line in the book, and the third the position of the plain text word on that line counting from the left. Codes provided the most common secret language basis for the entire nineteenth century.Ralph Weber describes in eight chapters the development of American cryptographic practice. The codes and ciphers published in the text and appendix will enable historians and others to read secret State Department dispatches before 1876, and explain code designs after that year

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1412840694

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9781412840699

The Correspondence of Lord Acton and Richard Simpson: Volume 2

By: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton,Richard Simpson

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The Correspondence of Lord Acton and Richard Simpson: Volume 2

By: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton,Richard Simpson

Lord Acton (1834-1902) and Richard Simpson (1820-76) were the principal figures in the Liberal Catholic movement of nineteenth-century England, an ultimately unsuccessful effort to reconcile the Roman Catholic Church with the leading secular thought of the day. They collaborated in editing the Rambler (1858-62) and the Home and Foreign Review (1862-4), two of the most distinguished Catholic periodicals of the period. The correspondence is the record of this collaboration and sheds light on the religious, political and intellectual history of mid-nineteenth-century England. Though heaviest for the years of their joint work on the Rambler and the Home and Foreign Review, the correspondence continued up to 1875, a year before Simpson's death.

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CUP Archive

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0521086884

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9780521086882

Queen Anne

By: Edward Gregg

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Queen Anne

By: Edward Gregg

The reign of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, was a period of significant progress for the country: Britain became a major military power on land, the union of England and Scotland created a united kingdom of Great Britain, and the economic and political basis for the Golden Age of the eighteenth century was established. However, the queen herself has received little credit for these achievements and has long been pictured as a weak and ineffectual monarch dominated by her advisers. This landmark biography of Queen Anne shatters that image and establishes her as a personality of integrity and invincible stubbornness, the central figure of her age. Praise for the earlier edition: “A thoughtful and . . . authoritative study, easily the best thing we have on the Queen. Like Anne herself, it is eminently worthy.”—Angus McInnes, History “With the appearance of this volume, a generation of revision in Queen Anne studies comes to fruition.”—Henry Horowitz, American Historical Review “The best kind of biography, scholarly but sympathetic, as well as highly readable.”—John Kenyon, The Observer “Bold . . . startling . . . imaginative and persuasive.”—G.C. Gibbs, London Review of Books

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Yale University Press

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030021295X

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9780300212952

The Kings Prophecie. Or, Weeping Joy. Expressed in a Poem, to the Honor of Englands Too Great Solemnities

By: Joseph Hall,William Edward Buckley

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The Kings Prophecie. Or, Weeping Joy. Expressed in a Poem, to the Honor of Englands Too Great Solemnities

By: Joseph Hall,William Edward Buckley

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385445043

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Paris 1918

The War Diary of the British Ambassador, the 17th Earl of Derby

By: Edward George Villiers Stanley Earl of Derby

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The War Diary of the British Ambassador, the 17th Earl of Derby

By: Edward George Villiers Stanley Earl of Derby

The diary of the 17th Earl of Derby, once thought to have been lost, provides a detailed and important account of the last months of the First World War as seen through the eyes of the British Ambassador in Paris. Derby was in many ways an unlikely choice as ambassador. He was not a diplomat and could not, on his arrival, speak French. His appointment owed much to Lloyd George’s determination to remove him from his previous post as Secretary of State for War. But, after a somewhat uncertain start, he proved to be a very successful ambassador upon whom successive Foreign Secretaries, Arthur Balfour and Lord Curzon, relied heavily for their appreciation of the situation on the other side of the Channel. Derby took up his appointment at a crucial period of the war when military victory still seemed some way off. He became an assiduous collector of information which he dictated into his diary on a daily basis. Derby’s embassy became renowned for its lavish hospitality. But this was far from being self-indulgence, for he firmly believed that entertaining was the best way to win the confidence of his French associates and therefore to obtain information that would be of use in London. Derby’s diary provides important insights into the state of the war, the often strained relationship between Britain and France and the intrigues of French domestic politics.

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0853236577

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Book's by Edward Frederick Leveson-Gower

United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers

United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers

The Correspondence of Lord Acton and Richard Simpson: Volume 2

The Correspondence of Lord Acton and Richard Simpson: Volume 2

Queen Anne

Queen Anne

The Kings Prophecie. Or, Weeping Joy. Expressed in a Poem, to the Honor of Englands Too Great Solemnities

The Kings Prophecie. Or, Weeping Joy. Expressed in a Poem, to the Honor of Englands Too Great Solemnities

Paris 1918

Paris 1918

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