This documentary history is intended for specialist and non-specialist alike. The introductions to the book’s sections, together with introductions to each do

The definitive version of the Spanish-American War as well as a dramatic account of America's emergence as a global power.

The Spanish American War of 1898 is often viewed as a disjointed series of colorful episodes; young Americans who would later become famous, fighting a Spanish

The U.S. Navy's first two-ocean war was the Spanish-American War of 1898. A war that was global in scope, with the decisive naval battles of war at Manila Bay a

A century after the Cuban war for independence was fought, Louis Pérez examines the meaning of the war of 1898 as represented in one hundred years of American