Ambitions and Realities: American Global Power at the Turn of the Century - Dirk Bönker. Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. 432 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0801450402. - Bonnie M. Miller From Liberation to Conquest: The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. 324 pp. $67.80 (cloth), ISBN 978-1558499058; $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1558499249. - William Michael Morgan. Pacific Gibraltar: U.S.-Japanese Rivalry over the Annexation of Hawaii, 1885–1898. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011. 384 pp. $31.46 (cloth), ISBN 978-1591145295.

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-451
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Phelps
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
World War ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Global Age ◽  
University Of Massachusetts

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 557-558
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Persian Gulf War ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
State University ◽  
World War ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
The Persian Gulf

Volker Janssen of California State University, Fullerton reviews, “America's Economic Way of War: War and the US Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War” by Hugh Rockoff. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the economic causes and consequences of the wars that the United States fought in the twentieth century. Discusses a century of war; the economics of war; the Spanish-American War; the Philippine-American War; World War I; World War II; the Korean War; the Cold War; the Vietnam War; the Persian Gulf War; and the American economic way of war. Rockoff is Professor of Economics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.”

The Conundrum of American Power in the Age of World War I

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-365
Author(s):  
Katherine C. Epstein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War I ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Power ◽  
World War ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
Power Projection ◽  
Naval Power ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Moment

Reports of the rise of the United States to a lead role on the global stage in the early twentieth century have been greatly exaggerated. As many Americans at the time recognized, the United States continued to have less capacity for overseas power projection and remained far more dependent on the world's reigning hegemon, Great Britain, than is generally now realized. The United States, it is true, acquired an overseas empire in 1898. But it lacked the basic attributes of a great power, such as economic sovereignty, naval power, and domestic consensus on the desirability of global great-power status. Even after World War I, which was a better candidate than the Spanish-American War as the moment when the United States became a leading global power, both the material and the cultural basis of that power remained fragile.

The Styles of American International Thought: Mahan, Bryan, and Lippmann

1965 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles D. Tarlton
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
International Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
World War ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
American Political Thought ◽  
Political Analysis

Because of heightened involvement of the United States in world affairs during the period between the Spanish-American War and World War I, American political thought expanded to include the dimension of international politics. In the process three different styles of thought emerged. Each style was equipped with its characteristic view of the nature of international politics, the nature and role of war, views of human nature, a method of social and political analysis, and proposals for dealing with the problems of world politics.

An American Tropical Laboratory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Raby
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
World War ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
Living Things ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Colonial Science

During the lead-up to the Spanish-American War, U.S. botanists looked with envy at the progress of European scientists, who had access to tropical colonies. They pushed for the creation of their own “American tropical laboratory.” Chapter 1 traces the origins of the U.S. tropical laboratory movement; the resulting rental of the station at Cinchona, Jamaica; and the first decade of research there by members of the founding generation of U.S. ecologists. This history reveals their range of motivations for engaging in tropical research, from the 1890s through the outbreak of World War I and the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. The study of tropical organisms—with their diversity of forms and adaptations so foreign to those familiar with temperate flora and fauna—seemed to offer a path to a truly general understanding of living things. At the same time, U.S. botanists saw tropical research as the key to a place on the international scientific stage. U.S. botanists did not wait for state­sponsored colonial science. Driven by a distinct set of intellectual, cultural, and professional concerns, they were ready to filibuster for science to acquire an outpost for research in the Caribbean.

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