The Colonial Spanish-American City: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism By Jay KinsbrunerRequirements: .PDF reader, 2 MBOverview: The colonial Spanish-American city, like its counterpart across the Atlantic, was an outgrowth of commercial enterprise. A center of entrepreneurial activity and wealth, it drew people seeking a better life, with more educational, occupational, commercial, bureaucratic, […]
The Spanish War: An American Epic, 1898 by G.J.A. O’TooleRequirements: .PDF reader, 55.6 MBOverview: On the night of February 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine was ripped in half by an explosion in Havana harbor with the loss of 266 American lives. War with Spain followed nine weeks later. After a three-month fight on two […]
The Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection: 1898–1902, Book 437 (Men-at-Arms) by Alejandro de QuesadaRequirements: .ePUB reader, 5 MBOverview: This book details the uniforms and weapons of the American, Spanish, Cuban and Filipino forces involved in the United States Army’s first overseas war. In 1898 the USA took the decision to intervene in the Cuban war […]
Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Navy, and the Spanish-American War by Edward J. MaroldaRequirements: .PDF reader, 11.3 MbOverview: In the 1890s, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt led a campaign to modernize the navy. Paramount in Roosevelt’s vision was the creation of a fleet of modern, steel-hulled warships armed with the most powerful weapons available. […]
Spanish-American War 1898 (Brassey’s History of Uniforms) by Ron FieldRequirements: .PDF reader, 67 MBOverview: An authority on the US Army of the 19th century transports readers back to this first war fought by the US as a global superpower and the subsequent campaign in the Phillippines, a guerilla war precursor of Vietnam. This book is […]