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Welcome to the World: America Defines Itself in the Spanish American War
Written by Hanna M. Laney   
Monday, 18 August 2008

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At the turn of the 20th century, America was undergoing many changes, both physically and socially.  People were moving to the West in droves, booming eastern metropolises were experiencing the highs and lows of the Industrial Revolution and America was rapidly becoming a world power.  In the last decade of the 1800s, the United States fought in a war that, while familiar, also reflected the numerous complexities shaping the international stage.  So goes the story of the War for Cuban Independence replete with concentration camps, an examination of the combination of an elite guerilla force, the effect of American yellow journalism and the deadly miscalculations made by Spanish General Valeriano Weyler.

 

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