Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898 1900
At a time when domestic opposition to U.S. policy in Asia has reached unprecedented levels, this prize-winning book examines the anti-imperialist protest of twelve prominent and strong-minded Americans against the empire seized from Spain in 1898. Although they did not agree among themselves on...
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At a time when domestic opposition to U.S. policy in Asia has reached unprecedented levels, this prize-winning book examines the anti-imperialist protest of twelve prominent and strong-minded Americans against the empire seized from Spain in 1898.
Although they did not agree among themselves on all points, these men—whether philosopher (William James), Robber Baron (Andrew Carnegie), ex-President (Benjamin Harrison), perennial dissenter (Carl Schurtz), Speaker of the House (Thomas B. Reed), or closet critic (Charles Eliot Norton)—joined forces with the others in this study and thousands of their countrymen "to warn a nation of optimists that America could not escape the consequences of its own conduct." Their unheeded warning is eloquently renewed in this book.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780070043442 (0070043442)
Publish date: 1971
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Pages no: 310
Edition language: English
America’s war with Spain in 1898 is generally regarded as the point at which the United States emerged as an imperialist power. While Americans greeted their victory over Spain with enthusiasm, their response to the acquisition of the Philippines and Puerto Rico was much more ambivalent, as prominen...