TY - SER
AU - John A. Britton
CY - Albuquerque, NM
LA - English
N1 - <ul><li>Introduction : Main themes and organization of the book </li><li>Introduction to the new international information system </li><li>Building the international cable system </li><li>Raising false hopes : international communications and international crises in Latin America, 1866-1881 </li><li>War, diplomacy, and propaganda : Chilean-U.S. relations, 1866-1880s </li><li>European intrusions, domestic disorder, and U.S. armed intervention : Central America in the 1880s </li><li>Confrontation via the information system : Chile and the United States, 1889-1892 </li><li>Popularization of the imperial mentality : from border crisis to hemispheric hegemony </li><li>Propaganda, public uproar, and the threat of war : the United States, Great Britain, and the Venezuelan boundary controversy </li><li>Information flow and revolution : Cuba, Spain, and the United States </li><li>Diplomacy under stress : Washington, Havana, and Madrid </li><li>Information flow, the U.S. press and the war with Spain </li><li>The Panama conspiracy </li><li>Celebrations of heroism and power </li><li>Conclusion : The ominous triumph of popular culture</li></ul>
PB - University of New Mexico Press
PP - Albuquerque, NM
PY - 2013
SN - 9780826353979
EP - 473 pp.
TI - Cables, Crises, and the Press: The Geopolitics of the New International Information System in the Americas, 1866-1903
ER -