| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization. By Thomas Schoonover. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. xvi, 180 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8131-2282-1.)
In this slim volume (122 pages of text), Thomas Schoonover endeavors to present "a clear, pointed argument that is suggestive and argumentative and not in any way 'definitive'" (p. 1). Drawing on a highly impressive command of both American and European secondary literature and nearly four decades of primary research in U.S., Central American, and European archives, he has realized that goal admirably.	1
Schoonover grounds his study in three analytical constructs: world systems, dependency theory, and "social imperialism" (p. 6). According to the last, developed or metropole nations sought to remedy domestic ills by exploiting less developed or peripheral countries. Within this analytical framework, he demonstrates clearly that the War of 1898 occurred against a backdrop of imperial competition in the circum-Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and East Asia, where the United States confronted the major European powers and Japan. The crux of this competition, Schoonover contends in his principal thematic contribution, involved control over the circum-Caribbean and particularly a Central American passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific commercial theaters.	. . .

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