Graduate Student, School of American Studies
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Richard Crockatt
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About
My work focuses on the second presidential administration of Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897. Specifically I am trying to answer why the United States' most actively imperialist period (beginning with the War of 1898) was preceded by one of its most ardently anti-imperialist presidents. I am seeking to explain what impact - if any - Cleveland and his advisors (most notably Walter Q. Gresham and Richard Olney) had on the evolution of American foreign policy, whether they were able to alter the nation's course, whether the pressure of imperialist sentiment affected their actions or even whether the imperialist movement came about to some extent as a reaction to their conservatism. My work covers events such as the Hawaiian revolution of 1893, the Brazilian Naval Revolt, the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95), the Venezuelan Border Dispute and the Cuban revolution of 1895.
