Ostend Manifesto

(noun)

A document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the United States should declare war if Spain refused.

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  • The Ostend Manifesto and Cuba

    • The 1854 Ostend Manifesto justified the right of the United States to annex Cuba and implicitly justified war if Spain refused to sell the island.
    • Dubbed the Ostend Manifesto, it was immediately denounced in both Northern U.S. states and Europe.
    • The backlash from the Ostend Manifesto shelved any expansionist plans for Cuba for several decades.
    • Pierre Soulé, the driving force behind the Ostend Manifesto and its resultant political fallout.
    • Explain what the Ostend Manifesto was and why Southern expansionists supported the policy

  • Conclusion: The Increasing Inevitability of War

    • In the realm of foreign affairs, the Ostend Manifesto claimed that the threat of a possible Haiti-type slave revolt in Cuba meant the United States would be "justified in wresting" Cuba from Spain.
    • The political backlash against the Ostend Manifesto and the Pierce administration effectively terminated any discussions of Cuban annexation until after the American Civil War.

  • Class Conflict and Marx

    • Famously, Marx wrote in The Communist Manifesto, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. " Class struggle pushed society from one stage to the next, in a dialectical process.
    • The Communist Manifesto gives an overview of Marx's theory of class conflict and embraces his position that sociologists should also be publicly active social critics.
    • In this video, the test of the manifesto is illustrated with cartoon clips that demonstrate the deep and enduring legacy of Marx's philosophy for modern culture.

  • The Grand Tour and Its Portraits

    • The travel itinerary typically began in Dover, England and crossed the English Channel to Ostend or to Calais in France.

  • Foreign Intervention

    • The duke then issued a proclamation called the Brunswick Manifesto (July 1792), written by the French king's cousin, Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, the leader of an émigré corps within the Allied army, which declared the Allies' intent to restore the king to his full powers and to treat any person or town who opposed them as rebels to be condemned to death by martial law.
    • Anonymous caricature depicting the treatment given to the Brunswick Manifesto by the French population.
    • The Brunswick Manifesto, rather than intimidate the populace into submission, sent it into furious action and created fear and anger towards the Allies.

  • Surrealism

    • Breton included the idea of the startling juxtapositions in his 1924 manifesto, taking it in turn from a 1918 essay by poet Pierre Reverdy, which said: "a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities.
    • In 1924 they declared their philosophy in the first "Surrealist Manifesto. " That same year they established the Bureau of Surrealist Research, and began publishing the journal La Révolution surréaliste.

  • Challenges to the New Deal

    • In 1937, Bailey released a "Conservative Manifesto" that presented conservative philosophical tenets, including the line "Give enterprise a chance, and I will give you the guarantees of a happy and prosperous America."
    • The Manifesto called for reduced governments spending, balanced budget, and lowering taxes.

  • The Brief Reign of Peter III

    • One of Peter's most widely debated reforms was a manifesto that exempted the nobility from obligatory state and military service (established by Peter the Great) and gave them freedom to travel abroad.
    • The manifesto obliged nobles to educate their children and ostracized the nobility considered lazy and unproductive.

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  • Der Blaue Reiter

    • Der Blaue Reiter lacked an artistic manifesto, but it was centered around Kandinsky and Marc .