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 Émigrés 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. Pérez, 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

Promotional Information

Examines the Spanish-American War of 1898 as a pivotal point in the definition of America.

About the Author

VIRGINIA M. BOUVIER is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland, College Park./e Professor Bouvier has published articles and monographs on female narratives on the California frontier, democracy and culture in Latin America, U.S.-Latin American relations, the war of 1898, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and human rights issues. She attended the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents in 1994 and worked as a National Historical Publications and Records Commission Intern on a documentary edition of the writings and correspondence of Emma Goldman.

Reviews

"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 University