Through the Diplomat’s Eyes: Romanian Social Life in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century

The volume deals with the interface between social and diplomatic history. The articles reconstruct the social behavior of the diplomatic corps accredited in Romania before the First World War. The everyday life of the diplomats, their participation in the social life of the upper class, the circles in which they lived, and the impressions they left with the members of the Romanian upper class are described here. The authors describe the emergence of these forms of social representation as an important impetus for the behavioral forms of the Romanian better society. Questions of identities, rights and duties, freedoms and social restrictions are also addressed. These characterize the lives of foreign diplomats who served in a border area between the Orient, the Balkans and Central Europe