The end of the Spanish empire, 1898-1923 /
This is an account of Spain's disastrous war with the United States in 1898, in which she lost the remnants of her old empire. The book also analyzes the ensuing political and social crisis in Spain from the loss of empire, through World War I, to the military coup of 1923.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford :
Clarendon,
1997.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Colonial Wars and the Disaster of 1898
- 2. The Aftermath of Disaster
- 3. Regenerationism: The Revolt of the Middle Classes
- 4. Dancing with Corpses: Popular Responses to War and Disaster
- 5. Between the Mobs and the Troops: The Catalan Challenge
- 6. The Rifle Without a Target: The Military in the Aftermath of the Disaster
- 7. The Revolution from Above
- 8. The Fall of the Restoration System 1914-1923
- Epilogue: Right-wing Regenerationism and The Imperial Myth.