Re: RE: Re: Re: Query on Anti-Colonial Revolts

["Carl Remick" <carlremick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War
> appeared on PBS.  I thought it was great, especially
> for PBS.
>
> to purchase, go to www.greatprojects.com\store
>
> mbs

The S-A War, just like the splendid little war now in progress, put the US
public in quite a feisty mood.  PBS rebroadcast another interesting
documentary recently on Coney Island in its turn-of-the-century heyday.  The
documentary, by Ric Burns, noted how the S-A war influenced popular
fantasies.  One web site that draws on the same material Burns used notes:

"Americans have always loved violence and at the turn of the century they
received it in a different form.  Instead of seeing hundreds of people die
in a film they went to Coney and watched as an entire city got swept away by
a wall of water or saw Mount Vesuvius shower death upon the people of
Pompeii.  ... [Coney Island] shows like 'War of the Worlds' also gave
Americans that feeling of pride, a feeling of what they thought their new
country was going to become.  In this show the naval forces of Germany,
France, Britain and Spain sailed together into Manhattan.  Then, [Battle of
Manila Bay hero] Admiral [George] Dewey's fleet sailed out and sank every
one of the sixty boats which had come to threaten American independence."

See http://history.amusement-parks.com/users/adamsandy/coneyhist1.htm

Carl

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