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

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Virginia Marie Bouvier
Praeger, Jan 1, 2001 - History - 241 pages
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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 emigre 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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Contents

Historical Underpinnings of Foreign Intervention
21
Part H The War of 1898
37
Cuban Emigres
61
Copyright

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Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Latin American Relations
David W. Dent
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Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Latin American Relations
David W. Dent
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About the author (2001)

Virginia M. Bouvier is a senior program officer at the United States Institute of Peace, where she heads the Colombia Conflict Team and the Colombia grants initiative. She is the editor of "The Globalization of U.S.-Latin American Relations: Democracy, Intervention, and Human Rights".

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TitleWhose America?: The War of 1898 and the Battles to Define the Nation
EditorVirginia Marie Bouvier
Editionillustrated
PublisherPraeger, 2001
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedSep 19, 2008
ISBN0275967948, 9780275967949
Length241 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / Latin America / General
History / United States / 19th Century
History / United States / General
  
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