Torruella Spanish American War Summary

In his book, Torruella examines the Spanish-American War from a global perspective by analyzing the role played by non-belligerent countries during the conflict and how this affected the outcome of the war. To do this, the author embarks on an interesting analysis of the socio-political situation of the major world powers in the late nineteenth century that allows us to understand the motivations of these during the Spanish-American War. Torruella the conclusion is clear: of all nineteenth-century world powers, only Britain considered a victory for the United States on Spain would be favorable to its geopolitical interests, especially in China and thus assumed an attitude in favor of their American cousins. The rest of the world powers adopted