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Online-Ressource (351 p)
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9780813155616
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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. Richard Hume Werking explores both the methods and the motives of these ""master architects."" 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 conditions -- particularly the need to stimulate export trade. Indispensable to its growth were the dedicated efforts of bureaucrats who were lo
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The United States Foreign Service; 2 Reform in the 1890s; 3 The Bureaucrat and the Businessman; 4 Frederic Emory's Commercial Offices; 5 Wilbur Carr, Elihu Root, and Consular Reorganization; 6 Diplomatic and Departmental Reforms, 1905-1908; 7 Continuation under Knox; 8 A Rival: The Department of Commerce and Labor; 9 Showdown; 10 A Multifaceted Salesmanship; 11 Epilogue: 1913 and After; Appendix A: Roster of Selected State Department Officials; Appendix B: Abbreviations and Record Groups; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B
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ISBN 9780813165127
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ISBN 9780813155616
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Master Architects : Building the United States Foreign Service 1890--1913
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Englisch
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