Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Georgia State University, 2007. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 319-350). Original electric version created as PDF file.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-174). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-174). Also available on the Internet.

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The author of this dissertation examines the role of the United States Navy in the American annexation of the Philippines during the War of 1898. Many historians have considered the American “Imperialist Moment,” but few have considered the primary role played by the United States Navy. The Navy had experienced a period of remarkable growth during the 1880s and 1890s, when that service had switched from the power of sail to steam. The change to steam had been possible only through the study of the British Royal Navy and its engineers. When the U.S. Navy completed its modernization project in the 1890s, it came away with a British understanding of naval engineering and of naval priorities – including the desire to possess naval bases around the globe. This dissertation contains a detailed account of how the U.S. Navy came to understand its needs, and this dissertation demonstrates how the War of 1898 brought home to naval planners the necessity of possessing exclusive American coal stores during wartime. Last, this dissertation includes the thoughts of the most significant American naval planners of the time and their British mentors. This paper is an intellectual history of the U.S. Navy of the late nineteenth century and a specific history of the basis for American foreign policy of the twentieth century. Keywords: History of U.S. Foreign Policy, American Naval History, War of 1898

Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 2000. / Title from title page screen, viewed July 31, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Louis G. Perez (chair), Lawrence W. McBride, Sharon S. MacDonald. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 340-370) and abstract. Also available in print.

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This dissertation examines the experience of those involved in the typhoid fever outbreak at Camp Thomas, Chickamauga National Military Park, Georgia between April and August 1898. Among American volunteer soliders in the Spanish-American War, those stationed at this camp suffered the highest number of typhoid cases and deaths from typhoid. Treatments of the war have referred to the outbreak and some studies have examined it as part of wider subjects, but none from the standpoint of those involved, commanders, doctors, civilians, officers and enlisted men. The mobilized soldiers represented numerous states and reflected the disease experience of civilian society. The study considers the mobilization process, the disease outbreak and the aftermath.

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