European Perceptions of the Spanish-American War of 1898

Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. This book consists of ten essays focussing on reactions in different parts of Europe to the Spanish-American War of 1898. Largely, the concentration is on the work of journalists, publicists, politicians and other self-conscious framers of public opinion. An attempt is also made to discover how such people gained their information on the War, and then tried to place it in their existing perceptions of the United States. Contents: Nico A. Bootsma: Reactions to the Spanish-American War in the Netherlands and in the Dutch East Indies - Sylvia L. Hilton: The United States through Spanish Republican Eyes in the Colonial Crisis of 1895-1898 - Markus M. Hugo: 'Uncle Sam I Cannot Stand, for Spain I have No Sympathy': An Analysis of Discourse about the Spanish-American War in Imperial Germany, 1898-1899 - Steve J.S. Ickringill: Silence and Celebration: Ulster, William McKinley and the Spanish-American War - Ludmila N. Popkova: Russian Press Coverage of American Intervention in the Spanish-Cuban War - Serge Ricard: The French Press and Brother Jonathan: Editorializing the Spanish-American Conflict - Augustin R. Rodriguez: Portugal and the Spanish Colonial Crisis of 1898 - Daniela Rossini: The American Peril: Italian Catholics and the Spanish-American War, 1898 - Nicole Slupetzky: Austria and the Spanish-American War - Joseph Smith: British War Correspondents and the Spanish-American War, April-July 1898.