Introduction - the historical background to the crisis of 1898, Joseph Harrison; introduction - the intellectual debate, Alan Hoyle. Part 1 Regenerationism: tackling national decadence -economic regenerationism in Spain after the colonial debacle, Joseph Harrison; Unamuno and the Restoration political project - a reevaluation, Stephen Roberts; "amor y pedagogia" - an object lesson in biography, Gordon Minter; horrible children, Nicholas Round; Ramiro de Maetzu - Hispanidad and the search for a surrogate imperialism, Alistair Hennessy. Part 2 Modernism: El "98" que nunca existio, Javier Blasco; authority or authenticity? the battle of the cultures at the millennial crossroads, Alison Sinclair; the "feminine element" - "fin de siecle" Spain, modernity and the woman writer, Susan Kirkpatrick; deconstructing the binaries of "enfrentismo" - Jose-Maria Llanas Aguilaniedo's "Navegar pintoresco" and the finisecular novel, Richard Dardwell; noventaiocho y novela - lo viejo y lo nuevo, Alex Longhurst; the function of landscape in Baroja's "La lucha por la vida", Alan Hoyle; constructing the 98 - Perez de Ayala's 1942 prologue to "Troteras y danzaderas", John Macklin; la percepcion sensorial y el texto modernista, German Gullon; modernism and imperialism, Patricia McDermott. Part 3 Postcolonialism: the Cuban search for national identity, Tony Kapcia; the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98) in West Indian literature, Emilio Jorge Rodriguez; el discurso femenino finisecular en Cuba - Aurelia del Castillo y otras voces en torno al 98, Mirta Yanez; popular and intellectual responses to 1898 in Puerto Rico, John D. Perivolaris; Jose Rizal, the Philippines and 1898, Bill Watson.