Colquhoun's "The Mastery of the Pacific" (1902) has sweep; and no one will regret reading R.L.Stevenson's "A Footnote to History" (1892), though it deals but with the toy kingdom of Samoa.
The most important history of the Spanish War is Admiral F.E.
Chadwick's "The Relations of the United States and Spain," one volume of which, "Diplomacy" (1909), deals with the long course of relations which explain the war; and two volumes, "Spanish-American War" (1911), give a narrative and critical account of the war itself.

E.J.

Benton's "International Law and Diplomacy of the Spanish-American War" (1908) is a good review of the particular aspects indicated in the title.

The activity of the navy is discussed from various angles by J.D.

Long, "The New American Navy," 2 vols.