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America's Diplomats and Consuls of 1776-1865
America's Diplomats and Consuls of 1776-1865 : a Geographic and Biographic Directory of the Foreign Service from the Declaration of Independence to the End of the Civil War
America's Diplomats and Consuls of 1776-1865
America's Diplomats and Consuls of 1776-1865
Author: Gary Applegate
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Published: 1986
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9789997382344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Missionary Diplomacy
Author: Emily Conroy-Krutz
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2024-03-15
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1501773992
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Missionary Diplomacy illuminates the crucial place of religion in nineteenth-century American diplomacy. From the 1810s through the 1920s, Protestant missionaries positioned themselves as key experts in the development of American relations in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Middle East. Missionaries served as consuls, translators, and occasional trouble-makers who forced the State Department to take actions it otherwise would have avoided. Yet as decades passed, more Americans began to question the propriety of missionaries' power. Were missionaries serving the interests of American diplomacy? Or were they creating unnecessary problems? As Emily Conroy-Krutz demonstrates, they were doing both. Across the century, missionaries forced the government to articulate new conceptions of the rights of US citizens abroad and of the role of the US as an engine of humanitarianism and religious freedom. By the time the US entered the first world war, missionary diplomacy had for nearly a century created the conditions for some Americans to embrace a vision of their country as an internationally engaged world power. Missionary Diplomacy exposes the longstanding influence of evangelical missions on the shape of American foreign relations.
US Consular Representation in Britain since 1790
Author: Nicholas M Keegan
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2018-03-08
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1783087455
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In its early years the United States Consular Service was a relatively amateurish organization, often staffed by unsuitable characters whose appointments had been obtained as political favours from victorious presidential candidates—a practice known as the Spoils System. Most personnel changed every four years when new administrations came in. This compared unfavourably with the consular services of the European nations, but gradually by the turn of the twentieth century things had improved considerably—appointment procedures were tightened up, inspections of consuls and how they managed their consulates were introduced, and the separate Consular Service and Diplomatic Service were merged to form the Foreign Service. The first appointments to Britain were made in 1790, with James Maury becoming the first operational consul in the country, at Liverpool. At one point, there was a network of up to ninety US consular offices throughout the UK, stretching from the Orkney Islands to the Channel Islands. Nowadays, there is only the consular section in the embassy and the consulates general in Edinburgh and Belfast.
Raising the Flag
Author: Peter Eicher
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2018-06-01
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1612349706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since its inception the United States has sent envoys to advance American interests abroad, both across oceans and to areas that later became part of the country. Little has been known about these first envoys until now. From China to Chile, Tripoli to Tahiti, Mexico to Muscat, Peter D. Eicher chronicles the experience of the first American envoys in foreign lands. Their stories, often stranger than fiction, are replete with intrigues, revolutions, riots, war, shipwrecks, swashbucklers, desperadoes, and bootleggers. The circumstances the diplomats faced were precursors to today’s headlines: Americans at war in the Middle East, intervention in Latin America, pirates off Africa, trade deficits with China. Early envoys abroad faced hostile governments, physical privations, disease, isolation, and the daunting challenge of explaining American democracy to foreign rulers. Many suffered threats from tyrannical despots, some were held as slaves or hostages, and others led foreign armies into battle. Some were heroes, some were scoundrels, and many perished far from home. From the American Revolution to the Civil War, Eicher profiles the characters who influenced the formative period of American diplomacy and the first steps the United States took as a world power. Their experiences combine to chart key trends in the development of early U.S. foreign policy that continue to affect us today. Raising the Flag illuminates how American ideas, values, and power helped shape the modern world.
Consuls and the Institutions of Global Capitalism, 1783–1914
Author: Ferry de Goey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1317320980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The nineteenth century saw the expansion of Western influence across the globe. A consular presence in a new territory had numerous advantages for business and trade. Using specific case studies, de Goey demonstrates the key role played by consuls in the rise of the global economy.
