Werking, Richard Hume. <br/><br/>
The master architects  building the United States Foreign Service, 1890-1913 / 
Richard Hume Werking. 
 - Lexington :  University Press of Kentucky,  (c)1977. 
 - 1 online resource (xvi, 330 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> During the twenty years before World War I, several key figures worked to improve the foreign service and to reform its appointment system. Richard Hume Werking explores both the methods and the motives of these ""master architects."" Unlike other scholars, Werking finds that the foundations and general structure of the United States foreign service emerged before World War I. He sees its development as prompted less by foreign crises than by economic conditions -- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813165127 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Diplomatic and consular service, American--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JX1705  / .M378 1977