Progressive Era Diplomat: Lloyd C. Griscom and Trade Expansion
Title:
Progressive Era Diplomat: Lloyd C. Griscom and Trade Expansion
Author:
Prisco, Salvatore
Appeared in:
Diplomacy & statecraft
Paging:
Volume 18 (2007) nr. 3 pages 539-549
Year:
2007-09
Contents:
The Progressive Era, from the late 1890s to the entry of the United States into World War One, was marked by a professional commitment to global trade expansion on the part of the State Department and the McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson administrations. Philosophically, the United States embraced the belief that a liberal, democratic, free-enterprise political and economic system would advance human progress on every continent, and that global free trade would remove many causes of war and conflict. Such a policy position attracted young and talented foreign service officers to serve in the American diplomatic corps. One young man was Lloyd C. Griscom, heir to one of the great American shipping fortunes. Griscom's career as a diplomat in Turkey, Persia, Japan, Brazil, and Italy between 1899 and 1909 revealed much about American political and economic interests during a period when the United States emerged as a major power.
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