Empire by default
the Spanish-American War and the dawn of the American century
by Ivan Musicant
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Now, moving from the councils of Madrid to the conferences in Washington, from the victory at Manila Bay to the battle of San Juan Hill, from factional in-fighting to inflammatory journalism, prizewinning historian Ivan Musicant offers a dramatic narrative that, in this centenary year, will stand as the definitive account.
Step-by-step, Musicant takes the reader through the thicket of arguments and decisions that led to America's almost accidental mantling as an imperial power. Here are the issues and debates, the strategies and obstacles, the ideals, interests, and missed opportunities.
Here, too, are the political conflicts of the day - conflicts that America would encounter repeatedly in the century to come and that reveal as much about the flaws in its governmental system as they do about the ambiguities in the nation's vision of itself.
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Spanish-American War, 1898, United states, foreign relations, 1897-1901, Spaans-Amerikaanse OorlogPeople
Theodore Roosevelt, George DeweyPlaces
Santiago de Cuba, Tampa, Manila, Puerto RicoTimes
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Empire by default: the Spanish-American War and the dawn of the American century
1998, H. Holt
in English
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0805035001 9780805035001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 704-716) and index.
"A Marian Wood book."
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Empire by Default is considered (as of 2012) the definitive work on the Spanish-American War. A huge book, it starts in the 1860s and leads the reader through the causes of the war in 1898, the war itself and its effects. It is basically a synthesis of research as of its publication in 1998, including very little original research. It is dense and chock-full of information but sometimes a chore to read.
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