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03566aam a2200517 i 4500 001 B9C39A1ADEE811EBB94CC8CD21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210707010029 008 201118s2021 ksu b 001 0deng 010 $a 2020040365 020 $a 0700632026 020 $a 9780700632022 035 $a (OCoLC)1224583382 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E840.8.D477 $b A3 2021 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Dickson, John S. $q (John Shields) $e author. 245 10 $a History shock : $b when history collides with foreign relations / $c John Dickson. 246 30 $a When history collides with foreign relations 264 1 $a Lawrence, Kansas : $b University Press of Kansas, $c [2021] 300 $a xv, 248 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "As John Dickson learned from his twenty-six-year career as an American diplomat, working in the Foreign Service teaches you as much about your own culture as it does about other cultures. We are accustomed to hearing about "culture shock"--that sense of disorientation and discomfort that comes from living in a place so unlike one's native environment. Dickson discovered something more profound than differences in cuisine and social customs. Over the course of his career, he experienced what he calls history shock: the sense of disorientation and discomfort that comes from seeing the present through a past differently constructed. His foreign counterparts were drawing on a history that he never learned and thus saw present-day events in completely different ways. That historical gap was as wide, if not wider, than any cultural gap, resulting in complex situations that could have been avoided or improved with a shared historical understanding. History Shock is both a memoir of Dickson's time in the Foreign Service and a lesson in historical forgetfulness. In recounting his experiences in places like Mexico, Canada, South Africa, Haiti, and Peru, Dickson helps bridge the historical gap between readers in the United States and residents of other nations who have never forgotten the traumas of the past. History Shock thus serves as a much-needed guide in crosscultural understanding at a time when there is so much misunderstanding"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Dickson, John S. $q (John Shields) 610 10 $a United States. $b Foreign Service $x Officials and employees $v Biography. 610 17 $a United States. $b Foreign Service $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00515978 650 0 $a Diplomats $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1989- 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations. 650 0 $a Diplomatic and consular service $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Diplomatic and consular service $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Diplomatic and consular service. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894202 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 $a Diplomats. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894415 650 7 $a Employees. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00909111 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a Since 1900 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20220601010607.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707012351.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B9C39A1ADEE811EBB94CC8CD21ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search