President McKinley, War and Empire: President M, Hamilton Paperback..

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President McKinley, War and EmpirePresident McKinley and America's New Empire\nAuthor(s): Richard Hamilton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138513587, 978-1138513587\nSynopsis\nThis second volume of President McKinley, War and Empire assesses five theories that have dominated analysis of modern societies in the last century--liberalism, Marxism, mass society, pluralism, and elitism--in accounting for an aberrant event in American history: the Spanish-American War. President McKinley and the Coming of the War 1898, volume 1 of this definitive history, considered the origins of that war. This second volume is concerned with the war's outcome; the settlement in which the [url] gained an \""empire.\""\n\nThe book begins by reviewing various expansionist episodes in [url] history--some successes, some failures--and by analyzing the complexities, support, and opposition involved in expansionism. It then examines the wor""