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Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture
(Chapel Hill, N.C., 1999), and the especially insightful
The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography
(Chapel Hill, N.C., 1998). David F.Trask,
The War with Spain in 1898
(2nd ed., Lincoln, Neb., 1996) is a good military history, Gerald F. Linderman,
The Mirror of War: American Society and the Spanish-American War
(Ann Arbor, Mich., 1974) a valuable social history. Robert Beisner,
Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898–1900
(2nd ed., Chicago, 1985) is excellent on the debate over imperialism. The United States' involvement in the Philippines is broadly treated in H. W. Brands,
Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines
(New York, 1992) and Stanley Karnow,
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
(New York, 1989). The Philippines War is handled quite critically in Stuart Creighton Miller,
"Benevolent Assimilation": The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899–1903
(New Haven, Conn., 1982) and more sympathetically in John M. Gates,
School-books and Krags: The United States Army in the Philippines, 1898–1902
(Westport, Conn., 1973) and Brian McAllister Linn,
The Philippine War, 1899–1902
(Lawrence, Kans., 2000), the most up-to-date and comprehensive study. Glenn Anthony May,
Battle for Batangas: A Philippine Province at War
(New Haven, Conn., 1991), an important local study, raises new questions and offers new interpretations. Richard E. Welch,
Response to Imperialism: The United States and the Philippine-American War, 1898–1902
(Chapel Hill, N.C., 1978) is good on the domestic reaction. Paul A. Kramer,
The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines
(Chapel Hill, N.C., 2006) is an important new study. Thomas J. McCormick,
China Market: America's Quest for Informal Empire, 1893–1901
(Chicago, 1967) and Paul A. Varg,
The Making of a Myth: The United States and China, 1897–1912
(East Lansing, Mich., 1968) debate the role of economic interests in the Open Door policy and the importance of the policy itself.
    1901–1921: Judy Crichton,
America 1900: The Turning Point
(New York, 1998) provides an interesting glimpse at turn-of-the-century America. A good recent biography of the major figure is H. W. Brands,
T. R.: The Last Romantic
(New York, 1997). Studies of Roosevelt's foreign policy include Howard K. Beale,
Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power
(New York, 1962), Raymond Esthus,
Theodore Roosevelt and the International Rivalries
(Waltham, Mass., 1970), Frederick Marks,
Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt
(Lincoln, Neb., 1979), Richard H. Collin,
Theodore Roosevelt: Culture, Diplomacy, and Expansionism: A New View of American Imperialism
(Baton Rouge, La., 1985), and Lewis L. Gould,
The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
(Lawrence, Kans., 1991). Surprisingly, there is no good biography of Root, one of the more important figures of twentieth-century America. Richard W. Leopold,
Elihu Root and the Conservative Tradition
(New York, 1954) isuseful. Kenton J. Clymer,
John Hay: The Gentleman as Diplomat
(Ann Arbor, Mich., 1975) is good on another important and especially colorful person. The beginning of the modern foreign service is analyzed in Warren Frederick Ilchman,
Professional Diplomacy in the United States, 1779–1939
(Chicago, 1961) and Richard Hume Werking,
The Master Architects: Building the United States Foreign Service, 1890–1913
(Lexington, Ky., 1977). Studies of the peace movement include Charles DeBenedetti,
The Peace Reform in American History
(Bloomington, Ind., 1984), John W. Chambers, ed.,
The American Peace Movement and United States Foreign Policy, 1900–1922
(Syracuse, N.Y., 1991), C. Roland Marchand,
The American Peace Movement, 1898–1918
(Princeton, N.J., 1973), and David S. Patterson,
Toward a Warless World: The Travail of the American Peace Movement, 1887–1914
(Bloomington, Ind., 1976). For relations with Britain,