The Master Architects: Building the United States Foreign Service 1890-1913 - Softcover

Werking, Richard Hume

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813155614 ISBN 13: 9780813155616

Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 2014

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During the twenty years before World War I, several key figures worked to improve the foreign service and to reform its appointment system. Mr. Werking explores both the methods and the motives of these "master architects." Unlike other writers, he 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 conditions-particularly 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. Mr. Werking's treatment of the earliest years of what is now the Commerce Department is an important contribution of this book. 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.

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• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0813155614
• ISBN 13: 9780813155616
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352