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The American Consul : a history of the United States Consular Service, 1776-1924 / Charles Stuart Kennedy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kennedy, Charles Stuart, author.
- Series:
- ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diplomatic and consular service, American--History.
- Diplomatic and consular service, American.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington , DC : New Academia Publishing, 2015.
- Contents:
- Consular antecedents
- Revolution and confederation (1776-1789)
- Birth of the consular service (1789-1800)
- The Barbary consuls (1794-1815)
- Free trade and seamen's rights (1800-1815)
- Yankee consuls in Latin America (1810-1860)
- Consuls in Europe
- consular reform (1815-1860)
- Consular development in the Near East (1815-1860)
- Consular operations in Africa, Asia and the Pacific (1790-1860)
- Consuls and the Civil War (1861-1865)
- Post-Civil War consular activities (1865-1900)
- Cuban problems and consular corruption (1870s-1890s)
- Consuls and commerce : trouble in Samoa (1865-1900)
- The Spanish-American War (1898)
- A professional consular service (1860-1914)
- World War I and the creation of the United States Foreign Service (1914-1924).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-304) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 099069397X
- 9780990693970
- OCLC:
- 919400762
- Publisher Number:
- 99964807533
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