Modern Consuls, Local Communities and Globalization
‘Today, there’s a growing notion that diplomacy is too important to be left to diplomats alone. Dr. Hofstadter’s book fulfills a pressing need of educating the public at large about an important aspect of consular functions.’—
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Modern Consuls, Local Communities and Globalization
Cami Green Hofstadter
Modern Consuls, Local Communities and Globalization
Cami Green Hofstadter Miami, FL, USA
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To my two sons, Bothwell and Sam, whose dual citizenship was instrumental in how they came to understand the nature of individual nations through the foreign consuls they encountered as mere children. And, to their wives, my daughters-in-law Carla and Elizabeth, whose exotic travels long before they married my beloved sons continue to add yet another perspective on the functional necessities of consuls.
Acknowledgments
It may be true that the curse of any author of a book of this nature is that she overlooks someone who helped smooth some phase of the writing process. Because of this fear, I’ve purposely not tried to include the names of every supportive librarian, who without fail managed to dig up the sometimes uncommon source material I requested. Specifically, without the assistance of those bibliothecaries who toil at Florida International University, Miami-Dade Public Library System, and the University of Miami, my task of writing a fact-filled but readable guide to the consular institution would not have been as enjoyable as it was. Above all, it wouldn’t have shown me that an indistinctive reference to “librarian” can be replaced by the refreshingly unfamiliar word of bibliothecary! The person who set me on course from the very beg
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