includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-332) and indexes.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Beginnings, 18801914 -- Chapter Two. Consolidation, 1914Late 1930S -- Chapter Three. Discontent, Late 1930Smid-1940S -- Chapter Four. Equal Status, 19461948 -- Chapter Five. Substantive Equality, Late 1940Searly 1950S -- Chapter Six. Ambassadors plus,1 Early 1950Smid-1960S -- Chapter Seven. Normalisation, Early 1960Smid-1970S -- Chapter Eight. Survival, Mid-1970S2006 -- Appendix One. Glossary -- Appendix Two. Commonwealth Members -- Appendix Three. The Growth of Intra-commonwealth Representation 188019571 -- Appendix Four. Relevant Articles from the Vienna Conventions -- Appendix Five. High Commissionera Historical Note -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

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This book illuminates two familiar phenomena – diplomacy and the Commonwealth – from a new and unfamiliar angle: the atypical way in which the Commonwealth’s members came to, and continue to, engage in official relations with each other. This innovative and wide-ranging study is based on archival material from four states, interviews and correspondence with diplomats, and a wide range of secondary sources. It shows how members of an empire found it necessary to engage in diplomacy and, in so doing, created a singular, and often remarkably intimate, diplomatic system. The result is a fascinating, multidisciplinary exploration of the evolving Commonwealth and the way in which its 53 members and Ireland conduct diplomacy with one another, and in so doing have contributed a distinctive terminology to the diplomatic lexicon.