{"id":44,"date":"2015-10-01T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/?p=44"},"modified":"2015-10-27T15:42:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T19:42:33","slug":"c-s-kennedys-the-american-consul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/2015\/10\/01\/c-s-kennedys-the-american-consul\/","title":{"rendered":"C. S. Kennedy&#8217;s The American Consul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scholarship directly focused on the US Consular Service is in short supply. The main book is Charles Stuart Kennedy&#8217;s <em>The American Consul: A History of the United States Consular Service, 1776-1914<\/em>, originally published in 1990 by Greenwood Press. It is now out in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/AMERICAN-CONSUL-History-Consular-1776-1924\/dp\/099069397X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1443712181&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+american+consul\" target=\"_blank\">revised second edition<\/a> that takes the story to 1924; that version was published in 2015 by New Academia Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, a former US Foreign Service officer, provides an account of the institution&#8217;s divided temporally and geographically. It focuses on the issue of professionalization and provides many vignettes featuring some of the most famous &#8212; or, indeed, infamous &#8212; US consuls, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and James Fenimore Cooper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scholarship directly focused on the US Consular Service is in short supply. The main book is Charles Stuart Kennedy&#8217;s The American Consul: A History of the United States Consular Service, 1776-1914, originally published in 1990 by Greenwood Press. It is now out in a revised second edition that takes the story to 1924; that version &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/2015\/10\/01\/c-s-kennedys-the-american-consul\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">C. S. Kennedy&#8217;s The American Consul<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1821,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286857,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fellow-travelers","category-bibliography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}