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The Hispanic-American War was so brief, and so relatively bloodless, that the whole event is rarely remembered among the great conflicts of recent history, yet the repercussions of that war were so great that it may be said to have been the starting point of a new era and a completely different world order.
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As the French statesman, Léon Gambetta, maintained, ‘to remain a great nation or to become one, you must colonise’. Quoted in James Joll, Europe since 1870: an International History ( London, Penguin, 1990 ), p. 81.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, Second Edition (London/New York, Verso, 1991), pp. 83–108, 141–50.
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George L. Mosse, ‘Racism and nationalism’, in Nations and Nationalism, vol. 1, part 2 (1995), pp. 163–73.
Figures taken from Alistair Hennessy, ‘Colonial wars in Cuba and the Philippines in the Nineteenth Century’, Itinerario, vol. 8, no. 2 (1984), p. 77.
Louis A. Pérez, Cuba between Empires, 1878–1902 ( Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983 ).
Ronald Fernández, The Disenchanted Island: Puerto Rico and the United States in the Twentieth Century, Second Edition (Westport and London, Praeger, 1996 ), p. 262.
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Smith, A., Dávila-Cox, E. (1999). 1898 and the Making of the New Twentieth-Century World Order. In: Smith, A., Dávila-Cox, E. (eds) The Crisis of 1898. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27091-0_1
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