Master Architects (eBook)

Building the United States Foreign Service 1890-1913

Richard Hume Werking (Autor)

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2021
352 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-9514-8 (ISBN)

Infos

During the twenty years before World War I, several key figures worked to improve the foreign service and to reform its appointment system. Richard Hume Werking explores both the methods and the motives of these "e;master architects."e; Unlike other scholars, Werking finds that the foundations and general structure of the United States foreign service emerged before World War I. He sees its development as prompted less by foreign crises than by economic conditionsparticularly the need to stimulate export trade. Indispensable to its growth were the dedicated efforts of bureaucrats who were loyal to national interests but wished the opportunity to do interesting work and to receive recognition when they did it well.

Autor

Richard Hume Werking received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin. He is on the library staff at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2021
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1890s reform • Bureau of Trade Relations • Charles Nagel • consular reorganization • consular service • Department of Commerce and Labor • diplomatic reform • diplomatic service • Elihu Root • Frederic Emory • Gallard Hunt • Henry Cabot Lodge • Huntington Wilson • Lodge bill • manufactured exports • Oscar Straus • tariffs • Theodore Roosevelt • Trade Promotion • Trade Relations • unfinished exports • US consulates • US exports • US Foreign Service • US State Department • US Treasury • Wilbur Carr • William H. Taft • William McKinley
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-9514-4 / 0813195144
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-9514-8 / 9780813195148