Consent to Ascent The Baltimore Affair and the U.S. Rise to World Power Status
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8874873 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joyce S Goldberg (The University of Texas at Arlington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-35 |
| Publication date | 1984-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1615 • E-ISSN: 1533-6247 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1006946 |
| OpenAlex | W2323046461 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
The city where trouble began in 1891, Valparaíso, Chile, was a memorable place. Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, the nineteenth-century Chilean historian and political leader, has rightly written that the history of Valparaíso has been the history of the sea. An old port, once a more important city than it is now, built around and especially on top of steep hills reached by rickety lifts, Valparaíso still has a grace and character unlike that of most other ports—its landscape resembles an untamed San Francisco. At one time it was a thriving commercial center and hub of naval activity, important not only for the direction of Chilean history but for that of much of South America as well. In the nineteenth century, with Chilean independence and the later decay of the Peruvian port of Callao, Valparaíso rapidly became the maritime capital of the Pacific and an important focus of naval enterprises for continental defense. Then, after decades of prosperity, its importance declined and the fortunes of other coastal cities arose
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |