Overview
From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule. Though often overshadowed by the ""Splendid Little War"" of the Americans in 1898, according to John Lawrence Tone, the longer Spanish-Cuban conflict was in fact more remarkable, foreshadowing the wars of decolonization in the twentieth century. Employing newly released evidence - including hospital records, intercepted Cuban letters, battle diaries from both sides, and Spanish administrative records - Tone offers new answers to old questions concerning the war. He examines the origin of Spain's genocidal policy of ""reconcentration""; the causes of Spain's military difficulties; the condition, effectiveness, and popularity of the Cuban insurgency; the necessity of American intervention; and Spain's supposed foreknowledge of defeat. The Spanish-Cuban-American war proved pivotal in the histories of all three countries involved. Tone's fresh analysis will provoke new discussions and debates among historians and human rights scholars as they reexamine the war in which the concentration camp was invented, Cuba was born, Spain lost its empire, and America gained an overseas empire.
Full Product Details
Author: John Lawrence Tone
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.662kg
ISBN: 9780807830062
ISBN 10: 0807830062
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 13 March 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Tone deals with not only the military aspects of the Cuban-Spanish-American war, but also the internal political complexities of those countries and the social and economic backdrop on which the story unfolds.... Tone masters all of these fields. - Jose Alvarez Junco, Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales, Madrid
"""Tone deals with not only the military aspects of the Cuban-Spanish-American war, but also the internal political complexities of those countries and the social and economic backdrop on which the story unfolds.... Tone masters all of these fields."" - Jose Alvarez Junco, Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales, Madrid"""
Author Information
JOHN LAWRENCE TONE is associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is author of the award-winning The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain (from the University of North Carolina Press).
