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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Spanish-American War"”.
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American Economic Imperialism and the Spanish-American War Era
American history and education always viewed the Spanish-American War era of 1898 as a time when imperialism unexpectedly became foreign policy. However, American imperialism would differ from the form it took in European countries. America would promote a “noble imperialism” that would elevate the …
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The partisan politics that led to the Spanish-American War
… major role in leading the United States into the Spanish-American War. With the unprecedented economic depression that began in 1893, many American politicians exploited a rebellion in Cuba to distract Americans from their own financial problems. During the administration of Grover Cleveland …
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An Inquiry Into The Maine Disaster, And Other Incidents Which Were Factors In Bringing About The Spanish-American War
… By this is meant the development of European or American control over the territory or the resources of the less powerful people outside of Europe and the United States. Methods employed in securing such control have varied from country to country and from time to time depending on the exigencies …
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Disease, Disuse, and Disappointment: The Volunteer Experience and the Modernization of the American National Guard, 1898-1902
… study of the common volunteers during the Spanish American War with a look into larger institutional changes within the American military at the turn of the Twentieth Century and the development of a modern National Guard. The Spanish American War left a stronger imprint on the form and …
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American oil interests in Mosul
… work and had to borrow from Europe.</p> <p>But toward the end of the century it became apparent to thinking men that the time was not far distant when we should have a surplus of capital here, and that to employ it we would have to seek foreign fields for investment. The Spanish American War led …
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A Comparison of the Treatent of Selected Subjects in American History in the Ninth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Editions of the Encycloaedia Britannica
<p>Some years ago, when I was teaching American history to high school seniors, I came across an American history textbook published in 1907. The title of the book and its author have been forgotten, but the inspiration for this paper is a direct result of my idle thumbing through the pages of the …
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A "scourge and minister" : Lyman Abbott, liberal Protestantism, and American warfare, 1861-1920.
… Abbott's writings concerning the three major American wars fought during his lifetime: the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I. In these three wars, Abbott strongly supported the United States and elevated each conflict to the status of a holy war. This thesis argues that the …
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The United States military occupation of the republic of Haiti
… is another step by the United States in the Americanization of the Caribbean area. These extensions have become a fixed policy of the Department of States. The Republicans and Democrats heartily support the United States government in her program of expansion. Protests will continue, but once …
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From Cuba to Ybor City: Race, Revolution, Nationalism and Afro-Cuban Identity
… the violent times of the Jim Crow South, the Spanish-American War, and their relations with the white Cuban exile community who escaped Spanish persecution leading up to the war, a complex and passionate set of characters are revealed who defined themselves as being Cuban, black, as well as …
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Evolution of U.S. Strategy in Latin America After the Cold War
In the years after the Cold War it appears that the U.S. distanced itself from Latin America. The region has begun to integrate itself in the world political economy without exclusively depending on the U.S. The integration has included engagement with extra-hemispheric states, such as China and …
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Making men: Spanish art and the politics of masculinity, 1898-1936
… of new gender-fluid masculine paradigms in Spanish visual culture from 1898 to 1936. It delves into the diverse constructions of gender and sexuality and their impact on the production of historical, national and sexual identities in the wake of Spain’s defeat and subsequent loss of its …
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Writing insurrection: U.S. literature and the politics of Latin American intervention, 1898 to 2010
… contest military intervention, and to urge American readers to intercede for hemispheric human rights. In chapters devoted to the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the 1959 Cuban Revolution, and the Central American “dirty wars” of the 1970s and ‘80s, my dissertation studies popular print culture …
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A luscious fruit: America's annexation of Hawaii
… of a seventy-year relationship brokered by Americans living on the islands and entered into by two nations attempting to find their place in the international system. Foreign policy decisions by both nations led to an increasingly dependent relationship linking Hawaii's stability to the U.S. …
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Tendencies of the generation of '98 as exhibited in the dramatic works of Jacinto Benavente and Gregorio Martinez Sierra
… school usually termed the Generation of '98. The Spanish American War proved to be the final humiliation of a century of political and economic decline in Spain.</p><p>A group of young men decided that something must be done to save Spain from crumbling to pieces before their very eyes. They loved …
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The Costs of Cuba Libre: U.S. Neo-Imperialism, Tourism in Cuba, and the Habana Hilton
<p>This paper is an investigation into North American tourism in Cuba between the “Spanish-American War” in 1898 and the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The research it presents was prompted by a set of photographs taken at the grand opening of the Habana Hilton in March 1958, part of the Bern and Franke …
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Imperial Entrepreneur: Masculinity, Race, and the Memory of Frederick Funston
… over “other” non-white groups. During the Spanish-American War, Funston served in the Kansas 20th and later in the regular army. Imperialists and anti-imperialists used similar language to build support for their respective causes. They used Funston as a symbol for the larger debate over …
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The Impact of the Haitian Revolution on the Hispanic Caribbean, c. 1791-1830
… long-lasting repercussions on the neighbouring Spanish possessions of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo. Events in Saint-Domingue took place during a period of profound change in the Spanish colonies. Reforms implemented during the reign of Carlos III (1759-1788) had begun to shift the …
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WOMEN AND WORK: A FOCUSED EXAMINATION OF FEMALE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ARMY NURSE CORPS WITHIN THE AMERICAN MILITARY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
… the home to work in the public sphere. However, war often changed the perception of what was acceptable. During the Revolutionary War, women found a voice and while still criticized for articulating their opinions, it was somewhat acceptable. Women also found work among the camps of the …
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Plantation America: the US South and the Caribbean in the literary culture of empire, 1898-1959
The American plantation system, far from an idiosyncrasy of the southern United States, was a transnational formation that spread across the US South, the Caribbean, and parts of Latin America, forming a cross-border cultural sphere often called “Plantation America.” How have US and Caribbean …
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