US Expansionism in the 1890s: Analysis of Imperialist Drive and Opposition

David Healy's book examines the intellectual, cultural, and economic forces behind the United States' imperialist drive in the late 1890s. The work analyzes key personalities, including Theodore Roosevelt, and the anti-imperialist opposition that arose. The data source is a historical text from Kansas State University, published on paperswithcode.

Use Cases

• Train text classification models to identify arguments for and against imperialism based on the described policy debates.
• Perform named entity recognition on historical figures and political concepts mentioned in the analysis of key personalities.
• Analyze sentiment or thematic shifts in political discourse based on the described examination of intellectual and cultural forces.
• Study the relationship between economic history and foreign policy as suggested by the description of economic forces shaping imperialism.

Strengths

• Authored by a named academic, David Healy, providing a defined perspective.
• Focuses on a specific, well-defined historical period (the 1890s).
• Covers multiple analytical dimensions including intellectual, cultural, and economic forces.

Limitations

• The underlying data format, column structure, and row count are unknown.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

David Healy / Kansas State University, via paperswithcode.

Collection Method

Likely a digitized or referenced historical text or analysis.

Time Range

Focuses on the 1890s, particularly around the Spanish-American War of 1898.

Geography

United States, with analysis of global imperial context involving Western Europe.