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...Amanda Claybaugh It is a surprising fact of literary history that many of the most important nineteenth-century authors served, at some point in their careers, as US consul. The list of these authors includes James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, James Russell Lowell, William Dean Howells...

... gathered outside Yokohama Gaiety Theater, waiting to hear whether they would be seated for the Salinger Opera Bouffe Company's performance of The Mikado . The chances did not look good. Two days previously, a scheduled production had been canceled by the British consul in Yokohama, whose extraterritorial...

..., and deaths were handled by the local parish. Central government departments were workshop-like in size: the Home Office's twenty-nine civil servants, for instance, oversaw the Metropolitan Police, the highways, poor laws, and factory and charity commissions, with no accountants, parliamentary consuls...

... and a three- piece suit—knew how to play the system, he got to faxing and phoning every association, every Islamic consulate, every brotherhood, every marabout and every sleeper network—even woke up the Minister for the Interior. The sky was black with fax toner and thundering with righteous anger’’ (64...