The Spanish-American War (eBook, ePUB)

A Documentary History with Commentaries
Redaktion: Berner, Brad K.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This documentary history is intended for specialist and non-specialist alike. The introductions to the book's sections, together with introductions to each document, provide a general history of the war. The contents cover the pre-war, war, and post-war periods in Cuba, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Spain, the Philippines, and the United States. Included are documents on the main battles and diplomatic history of the war, along with internal situations in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain, the Philippines, and the United States. Of particular interest is the section on Black Americans' views and participation in the war, and the section on the views of many participants, military and non-military.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611475753
• Artikelnr.: 41010652

Autorenporträt

Brad K. Berner is English language instructor in Moscow, Russia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: Kalman Goldstein
Introduction: Brad K. Berner
CHAPTER 1 THE BACKGROUND TO WAR (1895-1898)
Cuba
1. The Manifesto of Montecristi (March 25, 1895)
2. James Creelman - An Atrocity Story (New York World, May 17, 1896)
3. General Valeriano Weyler's Order of Reconcentration (October 21, 1896)
4. Richard Harding Davis "The Death of Rodríguez" (New York Journal,
February 2, 1897)
5. The Olivette Incident (January-February 1897)
6. Generals Máximo Gómez and Calixto García God, Country, and Liberty
(September 20, 1897)
7. The Rescue of Evangelina Cisneros (October 10, 1897)
Philippines
8. Andrés Bonifacio The Duties of the Sons of the People (1896)
9. Emilio Aguinaldo Manifesto to the Philippine People (October 31, 1896)
10. Governor General Camilo Polavieja's Proclamation (December 23, 1896)
11. The Pact of Biak-na-Bató (December 1897)
12. Emilio Aguinaldo on Early U.S./Filipino Relations (September 23, 1899)
13. U.S. Consul E. Spencer Pratt's Letter (April 28, 189