The Crisis of 1898: Colonial Redistribution and Nationalist Mobilization

ISBN-13: 9780312216504 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 221 str.

Angel Smith; Emma Aurora Davila Cox

Opis

In 1898 the United States and Spain went to war over the political future of Cuba. At the end of the conflict, the world's distribution of imperial power had dramatically changed, the old Spanish empire giving way to the imperialist ambitions of the young American nation. At the same time, all the countries involved experienced some sort of nationalist mobilisation as a consequence of the war. 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

SEBASTIAN BALFOUR Reader in Contemporary Spanish Studies and Deputy Director of the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies at the London school of Economics and Political Science MA DOLORES ELIZALDE Researcher in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid ALISTAIR HENNESSY Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick JOHN L. OFFNER Professor Emeritus of History at Shippensburg University JOHN OLDFIELD Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Southampton LOUIS A. PÉREZ Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill JOSEPH SMITH Reader in American Diplomatic History at the University of Exeter