| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Thomas Schoonover. Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization. Foreword by Walter LaFeber. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2003. Pp. xv, 180. $30.00.

In this provocative synthesis, which is conceptualized as "argumentative" rather than "definitive" (p. 1), Thomas Schoonover offers a searing indictment of U.S. foreign policy and informal empire. By no means a history of the Spanish-American War, the book virtually ignores many events commonly associated with that conflict, such as the sinking of the battleship Maine and the fighting near Santiago, Cuba. Rather, Schoonover dismisses the very term "Spanish-American War" as a misnomer and devotes his attention to the conflict's place within a longstanding Great Power competition for hegemony in China, the Pacific, and the Gulf-Caribbean (especially Central America's isthmian crossings).

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