Nicholas M Keegan

US Consular Representation in Britain since 1790 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In its early years the United States Consular Service was a relatively amateurish organization, often staffed by unsuitable characters whose appointments had been obtained as political favours from victorious presidential candidates-a practice known as the Spoils System. Most personnel changed every four years when new administrations came in. This compared unfavourably with the consular services of the European nations, but gradually by the turn of the twentieth century things had improved considerably-appointment procedures were tightened up, inspections of consuls and how they managed their consulates were introduced, and the separate Consular Service and Diplomatic Service were merged to form the Foreign Service. The first appointments to Britain were made in 1790, with James Maury becoming the first operational consul in the country, at Liverpool. At one point, there was a network of up to ninety US consular offices throughout the UK, stretching from the Orkney Islands to the Channel Islands. Nowadays, there is only the consular section in the embassy and the consulates general in Edinburgh and Belfast.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783087457
• Artikelnr.: 51399864

Autorenporträt

Nicholas M. Keegan, a former civil servant, has spent many years researching consular representation, first for his PhD, and then for the present book.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I
1. Early colonial history and American independence
2. Creation and growth of the State Department
3. Establishment and development of the Consular Service
PART II
4. US consular representation in Britain
5. Impact of the Civil War and the role of American consuls in Britain
PART III
6. Consular Posts and Consular Agencies in Major British Cities
7. Belfast
8. Birmingham
9. Bradford
10. Bristol
11. Cardiff
12. Dublin (up to 1922)
13. Dundee
14. Dunfermline
15. Edinburgh & Leith
16. Falmouth
17. Liverpool
18. London
19. Newcastle upon Tyne
20. Southampton
21. Stoke on Trent
22. An evolving, adaptive service
Appendix: Locations and categories of consular offices
Sources
Bibliography
Illustration captions
Illustration credits
Notes
Index.