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Cuba, the Philippines, and the Hundred Years' War

Although the Spanish-American War lasted only four months, it has not ended for historians. Why the war broke out and why it should have culminated in the acquisition of an American empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific are questions to which historians have not been able to provide satisfying answers. Indeed, their explanations, provided in the course of a Hundred Years' War of conflicting interpretations, have become part of the problem. The mountain of historiography that has been built up, far from furnishing a conceptual promontory from which to gain a clear view of the past, has in some ways blocked our vision. As one might expect, the recent celebration of the war's centennial has stimulated renewed interest in the