European Perceptions of the Spanish-American War of 1898 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3906763013 ISBN 13: 9783906763019

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1999

Synopsis

This book consists of ten essays focussing on reactions in different parts of Europe to the Spanish-American War of 1898. Largely, the concentration is on the work of journalists, publicists, politicians and other self-conscious framers of public opinion. An attempt is also made to discover how such people gained their information on the War, and then tried to place it in their existing perceptions of the United States.

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About the Author

The Editors: Sylvia L. Hilton teaches Latin American and United States History at the Complutense University of Madrid specialising in Native American-Hispano-Anglo borders and relations in America. Her recent publications include La Alta California Espanola (Madrid, 1992); with Ignacio Gonzalez, Fuentes manuscritas para la historia de Iberoamerica: guia de instrumentos de investigacion (Madrid, 1995) and its Suplemento (Madrid, 1997); and a number of articles, sometimes jointly with Steve Ickringill, on different aspects of U.S. intervention in the Spanish colonial crisis 1895-1898.
Steve J. S. Ickringill teaches History at the University of Ulster. He is former chair of the Irish Association for American Studies and Vice-President of the European Association. As well as the jointly written articles with Professor Hilton, he has published essays on comparative U.S./U.K. Sports History and edited three volumes in the series European Contributions to American Studies.

Review

«‘European Perceptions of the Spanish-American War of 1898‘, published by Peter Lang AG, European Academic Publishers, in Switzerland, is a fine example of the high quality of work now being done by Europeans in American studies.» (John Allen Gable, Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal)
«...the authors present not only very valuable insights into the complex nexus between public opinion, politics and foreign policy in Europe, they also offer a refreshing and well balanced view of global conditions during the war.» (Ragnhild Fiebig-von Haase, Iberoamericana)
«Cuando se ha trabajado y publicado tanto sobre un tema – a pesar de las lagunas de conocimiento que siempre quedan – descender a niveles de detalle como lo que proporciona la edición de Hilton y Ickringill cobra un valor especial para el avance del saber y del debate historiográfico. Los artículos compilados en la obra, además, son de gran calidad.» (Antonio Santamaría García, Revista de Indias)

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 3906763013
• ISBN 13: 9783906763019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: Hilton Sylvia L., Ickringill Steve J. S.