Spain and Her Moroccan Protectorate 1898 - 1927

Abstract

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.

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