Spain and Her Moroccan Protectorate 1898 - 1927

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ID10073876
AuthorsJames A Chandler
Year1975
Volume10
Issue2
Pages301-322
Publication date1975-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/002200947501000205
OpenAlexW1983996849
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited1

of the Spanish American War forced many Spaniards to acknowledge their secondary status among European powers and led to a widespread lack of enthusiasm for further colonial adventures. Nevertheless, six years after the loss of Cuba, Spain found it necessary to gain an interest in Northern Morocco. Subsequent efforts to control this territory involved her in over twenty-seven years of continual conflict and frequent humiliation. Probably no other European power fought so long and so intensively over such a small area. Throughout these struggles Spain insisted on retaining her hold over the area even though she had acquired it with little enthusiasm and her original motives for intervention came to have little relevance in the face of enervating conflict. This paper will attempt to identify the motives which led to Spanish intervention in Morocco and the effect such motives had on the policy followed by Spain in the Zone

Adventure · Colonialism · Development economics · Economic history · Enthusiasm · Ethnology · Geography · Humiliation · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Power (physics · Protectorate · Cuban History and Society · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Law · Psychology

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