President Mckinley, War and Empire President Mckinley and the Coming of War 1898 |
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| Author:
| Hamilton, Richard F. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4128-3183-3 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2011 |
| Publisher: | Transaction Publishers
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $45.95 |
Book Description:
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Volume 1 of this definitive history considers the origins of the Spanish-American War. The "progressive" reading of history focuses on two major antecedents for the origins of the United States' 1898 war with Spain: the 1896 presidential election and the Hearst-Pulitzer press war that, reportedly, generated an irresistible clamor from an "aroused public." Volume 2 assesses five theories that have dominated analysis of modern societies in the last century--liberalism, Marxism, mass...
More DescriptionVolume 1 of this definitive history considers the origins of the Spanish-American War. The "progressive" reading of history focuses on two major antecedents for the origins of the United States' 1898 war with Spain: the 1896 presidential election and the Hearst-Pulitzer press war that, reportedly, generated an irresistible clamor from an "aroused public." Volume 2 assesses five theories that have dominated analysis of modern societies in the last century--liberalism, Marxism, mass society, pluralism, and elitism--in accounting for the war. It is also concerned with the war's outcome; the settlement in which the U.S. gained an "empire."