Synopses & Reviews
In the midst of the culture wars raging in the United States, this book recovers a part of U.S. history that some wish to forget--the war of 1898. With the war, U.S. policymakers terminated more than four centuries of Spanish colonial rule in the region and launched a paradigm for U.S.-Latin American relations that dominated the 20th century. The war inaugurated an era of profound change not only in U.S. policy toward Latin America, but also in regional cultures and identities within the United States, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
Virginia M. Bouvier underscores the importance of the war in defining American identities. Contributors discuss such items as Spanish perspectives on the U.S. role in the conflict, the multiple and conflicted identities of the Cuban émigré community, and the capacity of gender discourse to explain Congressional actions. A final bibliographic essay reviews recent scholarship on the war. Scholars, students, and researchers involved with American and Latin American history will find this collection particularly valuable.
Review
An excellent collection of essays on various aspects of the War of 1898 and its consequenses. This was indeed marked a turning point in U.S. history and it is wel worth pondering its significance. It is also rather depressing, for as the book's editor, Virginia Bouvier, suggests in her introduction, the arrogance, sense of superiority and right to hegemony, served up with pious assertions of noble intentions, which so characterized U.S. conduct of the War of 1898, foreshadow in striking ways the attitudes behind our policy today. Certainly when it comes to Cuba, U.S. leaders seem to have learned nothing over the past century. Our policy is as misguided today as it was then.Wayne S. Smith Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies Johns Hopkins Unversity
Review
An excellent collection of essays on various aspects of the War of 1898 and its consequenses. This was indeed marked a turning point in U.S. history and it is wel worth pondering its significance. It is also rather depressing, for as the book's editor, Virginia Bouvier, suggests in her introduction, the arrogance, sense of superiority and right to hegemony, served up with pious assertions of noble intentions, which so characterized U.S. conduct of the War of 1898, foreshadow in striking ways the attitudes behind our policy today. Certainly when it comes to Cuba, U.S. leaders seem to have learned nothing over the past century. Our policy is as misguided today as it was then.Wayne S. Smith Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies Johns Hopkins Unversity
Synopsis
Examines the Spanish-American War of 1898 as a pivotal point in the definition of America.
Synopsis
Bouvier presents essays by leading American and Latin American scholars that contend the war of 1898 marked a pivotal point in the definition of America. It launched an identity crisis in each of the national cultures involved and set in place paradigms that continue to influence domestic and international relations today.
Synopsis
Bouvier presents essays by leading American and Latin American scholars that contend the war of 1898 marked a pivotal point in the definition of America. It launched an identity crisis in each of the national cultures involved and set in place paradigms that continue to influence domestic and international relations today.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Whose America? The War of 1898 and the Battles to Define the Nation by Virginia M. Bouvier
Historical Underpinnings of Foreign Intervention
Two Americas by Lester Langley
The War of 1898
U.S. Intervention and Monroeism: Spanish Perspectives on the American Role in the Colonial Crisis of 1895-98 by Sylvia Hilton
Contradictory Identities, Conflicted Nations: Cuban Emigres in the United States and the Last War for Independence (1895-1898) by Lillian Guerra
Imaging a Nation: U.S. Political Cartoons and the War of 1898 by Virginia M. Bouvier
"Honor Comes First:" The Imperatives of Manhood in the Congressional Debate over War by Kristin Hoganson
Legacies of 1898
Legacies of Intervention: The Case of Cuba by Louis A. Perez, Jr.
Intervention of Possession? Puerto Rico, The War of 1898, and the American Colonial Periphery by Francisco A. Scarano
The Anti-Imperialist Movement, 1898-1921 by Jim Zwick
Conclusions by Virginia M. Bouvier
Bibliographical Essay
Index