This book traces the significant history of the U.S. Consular Service, Americas principal representation abroad through most its history.
This new edition adds the period 1914 to 1924, after which the Consular Service was integrated with the Diplomatic Service to form the present-day Foreign Service of the United States. This volume thus adds the work of the Consular Service through the end of World War I, the Greek disaster in Turkey, and Germany in the early years of the Weimar Republic.
Consuls have played an important role in relations between countries from ancient times to the present....