The crisis of 1898 colonial redistribution and nationalist mobilization
In 1898 the United States and Spain went to war over the political future of Cuba. This book explores the interplay of political, economic, social and military aspects of the 1898 war in the United States, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain and the Philippines, all main characters in this short but momentous turn-of-the-century drama.
Print Book, English, 1998
MacMillan Press ; St. Martin's Press, Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England], New York, 1998
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IX, 221 p. : il. ; 23 cm
9780312216504, 9780333720769, 0312216505, 0333720768
432876929
Notes on Contributors List of Tables, Figures and Illustrations 1898 and the Making of the New Twentieth-Century World Order; A.Smith and E.D�la-Cox United States Politics and the 1898 War Over Cuba; J.Offner Remembering the Maine: the United States, 1898 and Sectional Reconciliation; J.Oldfield The Origins of the Cuban Revolt; A.Hennessy Puerto Rico in the Hispanic-Cuban-American War: Reassessing 'the Picnic'; E.D�la-Cox 1898: the Coordinates of the Spanish Crisis in the Pacific; M.Elizalde The People and the Nation: Nationalist Mobilization and the Crisis of 1895-98 in Spain; A.Smith The Impact of War Within Spain: Continuity of Crisis?; S.Balfour 'At the Wrong Place, at the Wrong Time and the Wrong Enemy': US Military Strategy Towards Cuba in 1898; J.Smith Index