Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. By Kristin L. Hoganson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 305. $30.00.) Over the past two decades, historians of American foreign relations have broadened their scholarly field...

The Philippine-American War, lasting officially from February 1889 to July 1902 but in actuality until at least 1906, committed the United States to an expansionist policy viewed by Mark Twain and others as "imperialism." Mark Twain became a perfervid anti-imperialist when America, as...