5. Aftermath: The Caribbean

About this Lecture

Lecture

In this module, we turn to examine the aftermath and consequences of the war in the Caribbean. The US exerted its influence with great strength in this region and further developed its new foreign policy of empire "on the cheap". This can be seen by looking at US policy towards three countries in the region: (i) Cuba; (ii) Panama; and (iii) the Dominican Republic.

Course

In this course, Professor Jay Sexton (University of Missouri) explains the effects of the War of 1898 on the United States. We start by introducing the period as a whole and discussing the nomenclature of the topic. We then turn to examine the war itself and how it symbolised the victory of pro-imperialist arguments in the United States. After this, we turn to examine the aftermath and consequences of the war on three regions: (i) the Philippines; (ii) China; and (iii) the Caribbean.

Lecturer

Jay Sexton is the Rich and Nancy Kinder Chair of Constitutional Democracy and Professor of History at the University of Missouri. He is also a former Director of the Rothermere American Institute (RAI), a Distinguished Fellow of the RAI and an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He specialises in the political and economic history of the nineteenth century and has written a number of books including A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History, Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873, and The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America.