The Crisis of 1898
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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.…mehr

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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.
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Autorenporträt
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