6. Conclusion

About this Lecture

Lecture

In this module, we take a look back over the whole course to offer some concluding comments on the War of 1898 and its aftermath. In doing this, we draw three conclusion: (i) public support for the war and imperialism quickly subsided after the war began; (ii) As a result of the war, US imperialism and intervention was limited; and (iii) US empire became built on exporting its culture and economy, and maintaining alliances and trade networks.

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.