Diplomacy as Experience of the Other: French Consuls in the Maghreb (1700-1840)

This book, initially published in French in 2002, has served as a foundational reference for the emerging field of “New Diplomatic History.” Adopting a microhistorical approach, Christian Windler proposed a novel paradigm for the cultural and social history of diplomacy. His work combines a focus on the extraordinarily well-documented life of a French consul with an examination of cultural representations, interaction rituals, and gift-giving practices in a cultural contact zone from 1700 t...