The Crisis of 1898
Subtitle: Colonial Redistribution and Nationalist Mobilization
Contributors: Angel Smith (Editor); Emma Davila-Cox (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: January 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780312216504
Subjects: 19th Century World History; Military History - Modern; Literary Criticism; History - Military / War; History: World; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Military - Other; United States - 19th Century/Turn of the Century; History / Military / Other; History-Europe - Spain & Portugal; History-United States - 19th Century/Turn of the Century; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General; 19th century; Armed Forces; History; Mobilization; Spain; Spanish-American War, 1898; United States
Description: The present volume is a collection of essays written by experts in the history of each of the countries involved in the 1898 war: the United States, Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Its aim is to explore a conflict which, in spite of its short duration, had lasting effects on the judgement and economies of all of the main protagonists, and global implications which have echoed throughout the twentieth century.