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Whose America?: The War of 1898 and the Battles to Define the Nation

Whose America?: The War of 1898 and the Battles to Define the Nation

Bouvier, Virginia M.

Hardcover

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Latin American HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0275967948
ISBN13: 9780275967949
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Aug 30 2001
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.46
Language: English

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.

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