The Crisis of 1898: Colonial Redistribution and Nationalist Mobilization

by Angel Smith (Editor), Emma Dïvila-Cox (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312216504
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/09/1998
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	221
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"...the whole volume is an eloquent, scholarly and readable collection, with sufficient new insights and critiques to make it a worthy addition..."-- Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

From the Publisher

Nine essays from a May 1997 conference in Southampton, England, provide various perspectives on the Spanish American War, which ended Spain's imperialist era and began that of the US. The topics include making the new 20th-century world order, US politics, the origins of the Cuban revolt, Puerto Rico, the coordinates of the crisis in the Pacific, nationalist mobilization in Spain, and US military strategy towards Cuba. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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