Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. 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. Contents: Nico A. Bootsma: Reactions to the Spanish-American War in the Netherlands and in the Dutch East Indies - Sylvia L. Hilton: The United States through Spanish Republican Eyes in the Colonial Crisis of 1895-1898 - Markus M. Hugo: 'Uncle Sam I Cannot Stand, for Spain I have No Sympathy': An Analysis of Discourse about the Spanish-American War in Imperial Germany, 1898-1899 - Steve J.S. Ickringill: Silence and Celebration: Ulster, William McKinley and the Spanish-American War - Ludmila N. Popkova: Russian Press Coverage of American Intervention in the Spanish-Cuban War - Serge Ricard: The French Press and Brother Jonathan: Editorializing the Spanish-American Conflict - Augustin R. Rodriguez: Portugal and the Spanish Colonial Crisis of 1898 - Daniela Rossini: The American Peril: Italian Catholics and the Spanish-American War, 1898 - Nicole Slupetzky: Austria and the Spanish-American War - Joseph Smith: British War Correspondents and the Spanish-American War, April-July 1898.

Essay discusses American relations and views on Germany and other European nations during the Spanish-American War.

"In Global Intrigues: The Era of the Spanish-American War and the Rise of the United States to World Power, Juan R. Torruella provides an account of the world-wide diplomatic context within which the Spanish-American War came to take place. He examines the state of the great empires of the time, the stance each took and the influence each exercised over the looming war - or in his own words - "the attitudes and actions of the so-called non-belligerents, and how these intrigues affected the war and resulted in significant changes in the global balance of power, thus contributing to the rise of the United States to its present dominant position.""--BOOK JACKET.

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.

Excerpt from A History of the Spanish-American War of 1898 Much has been published on the brief but interesting and very important war of 1898 between the United States and Spain; but practically everything that has appeared belongs to one of two classes. On the one hand, there are the narratives of sailors, soldiers, and correspondents who took part in it, and who describe what they saw. These books are not history, though many of them are excellent material for history. On the other hand, there are records of a more general character, most of which are hasty compilations of little value. The contemporary accounts of the war were very inaccurate and imperfect; it was not until some time later that there was a sufficient body of trustworthy evidence to make it possible to write anything like a real history. For the present volume it is claimed that it is based upon a study of all the available first-hand evidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.