Amos Shartle Hershey was an American

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 professor

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 of political science

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, born at Hockersville

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, Pa.

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 He was educated at Harvard College

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 and Law School (A. B., 1892), and studied also at the University of Heidelberg

Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg

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 (Ph.D.

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, 1894) and at Paris

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 (1894-95). On the faculty of Indiana University

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 he served as assistant professor of political science (1895-1900), as associate professor of Europe

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an history and politics (1900-05), and as professor of political science after 1905. He was a member of the staff of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace

American Commission to Negotiate Peace

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, 1918-19.

Works

Besides his contributions on political science and law he is author of:

• The International Law and Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War (1907)
• The Essentials of International Public Law (1912)
• Modern Japan, with Frank M. Anderson (1919)
• Handbook for the Diplomatic Relations of Europe, Asia and Africa, 1870-1914 (1918)