All Outputs (12)

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection (2018)
Book
Fisher, J. N. (2018). Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection. (1). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351042703

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britain's interests in the Near East and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Essays address themes in British power projection in a geographic... Read More about Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection.

Gentleman spies in Asia (2010)
Journal Article
Fisher, J. (2010). Gentleman spies in Asia. Asian Affairs, 41(2), 202-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068371003747829

This article covers the gathering of intelligence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Asia, particularly in Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Inevitably, the Great Game and concerns about Russian intentions loomed large. Initially... Read More about Gentleman spies in Asia.

The church of England and British policy towards the Assyrians, 1914-55 (2010)
Book Chapter
Fisher, J. (2010). The church of England and British policy towards the Assyrians, 1914-55. In K. G. Robbins, & J. Fisher (Eds.), Religion and Diplomacy: Religion and British Foreign Policy 1851-1941 (225-250). Dordrecht: Republic of Letters

Introduction (2010)
Book Chapter
Robbins, K., & Fisher, J. (2010). Introduction. In K. Robbins, & J. Fisher (Eds.), Religion and Diplomacy: Religion and British Foreign Policy 1851-1941 (1-7). Dordrecht and St Louis MO: Republic of Letters

Religion and diplomacy: religion and British Foreign Policy 1815-1941 (2010)
Book
Robbins, K., & Fisher, J. (. (2010). Religion and diplomacy: religion and British Foreign Policy 1815-1941. Dordrecht and St Louis MO: Republic of Letters

For long a missing dimension in British foreign policy, religion impinged upon the formulation of Britain’s overseas interests in many ways. This was true of policy makers’ unspoken assumptions about the nature of humanity and international politics,... Read More about Religion and diplomacy: religion and British Foreign Policy 1815-1941.

‘“A call to action”: The Committee on British Communities Abroad, 1919-20 (2009)
Journal Article
Fisher, J. (2009). ‘“A call to action”: The Committee on British Communities Abroad, 1919-20. Annales canadiennes d'histoire / Canadian Journal of History, 44(2), 261-286

British consular representation in Morocco, 1912-1924: “A question of pounds, shillings and pence” (2009)
Journal Article
Fisher, J. (2009). British consular representation in Morocco, 1912-1924: “A question of pounds, shillings and pence”. The Maghreb review. Majallat al-Maghrib, 34(2-3), 131-158

Man on the spot: Captain George Gracey and British policy towards the Assyrians, 1917-45 (2008)
Journal Article
Fisher, J. (2008). Man on the spot: Captain George Gracey and British policy towards the Assyrians, 1917-45. Middle Eastern Studies, 44(2), 215-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/00263200701874875

Official responses to foreign travel at the british foreign andlndia offices before 1914 (2007)
Journal Article
Fisher, J. (2007). Official responses to foreign travel at the british foreign andlndia offices before 1914. English Historical Review, 122(498), 937-964. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cem216

Lord Robert Cecil and the formation of a Middle East Department of the Foreign Office (2006)
Journal Article
Fisher, J. (2006). Lord Robert Cecil and the formation of a Middle East Department of the Foreign Office. Middle Eastern Studies, 42(3), 365-380. https://doi.org/10.1080/00263200500521172

Gentleman spies: British agents in the empire and beyond (2002)
Book
Fisher, J. (2002). Gentleman spies: British agents in the empire and beyond. Alan Sutton

The Rabegh crisis, 1916-17: 'A comparatively trivial question' or 'a self-willed disaster' (2002)
Journal Article
Fisher, J. (2002). The Rabegh crisis, 1916-17: 'A comparatively trivial question' or 'a self-willed disaster'. Middle Eastern Studies, 38(3), 73-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/714004468