History Shock : When History Collides with Foreign Relations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickson, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickson, John S. (John Shields).

United States. Foreign Service.

Diplomats.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : University Press of Kansas, 2021.

Summary:

John Dickson recounts episodes from his career as an American diplomat where he came face to face with a new or unknown version of the history behind each experience. These "stories with a history" underscore the costs of not knowing the history of our partners and adversaries, or our own.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. The Past Is a Foreign Country

2. Mexico: The Impact of the Forgotten War

3. Canada: The Other Forgotten War

4. Nigeria and South Africa: Whose Civil Rights?

5. Summit of the Americas: Trapped in Our Past

6. Haiti: Recovering Heritage

7. Peru: Getting It Right

8. Mexico: Coming Home

9. Cuba: Our Neighbor Doesn't Know Us

10. Choosing to Remember: Laying a Wreath

11. Connecting the Dots: Preliminary Conclusions

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780700632039

0700632034

OCLC:

1256236950