Britain and Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Title | Britain and Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries PDF eBook |
Author | Rory Miller |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2014-06-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317870298 |
The first full-length survey of Britain's role in Latin America as a whole from the early 1800s to the 1950s, when influence in the region passed to the United States. Rory Miller examines the reasons for the rise and decline of British influence, and reappraises its impact on the Latin American states. Did it, as often claimed, circumscribe their political autonomy and inhibit their economic development? This sustained case study of imperialism and dependency will have an interest beyond Latin American specialists alone.
Britain and Latin America
Title | Britain and Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Bulmer-Thomas |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 1989-08-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521372054 |
This book studies the reasons for the dramatic decline of British relations with Latin America.
Britain and the Growth of US Hegemony in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Title | Britain and the Growth of US Hegemony in Twentieth-Century Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas C. Mills |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2020-10-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3030483215 |
“The editors have assembled an outstanding group of scholars in this very welcome addition to our understanding of Latin American external relations and British foreign policy towards the region in the 20th century.”— Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Honorary Professor, Institute of the Americas, University College London & Former Director, Chatham House “This is an important and timely book, reappraising the UK’s role in Latin America in the 20th century. What emerges is far more interesting than the usual narrative of linear UK decline in the face of growing US predominance.”— Peter Collecott, CMG, UK Ambassador to Brazil, 2004–2008 This book explores the role of Great Britain in twentieth-century Latin America, a period dominated by the growing political and economic influence of the United States. Focusing on three broad themes—war and conflict; commercial and business rivalries; and responses to economic nationalism, revolution, and political change—the individual chapters cover a number of countries and issues from 1914 to 1970, stressing the reluctance with which Britain ceded hegemony in the region. An epilogue focuses on Anglo-American relations and concerns in Latin America in the more recent past. The chapters, all written by leading scholars on their particular subjects, are based on original research in a wide variety of archives, going beyond the standard Foreign Office and State Department sources to which most earlier scholars were confined.
The Forms of Informal Empire
Title | The Forms of Informal Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Jessie Reeder |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2020-06-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1421438089 |
An ambitious comparative study of British and Latin American literature produced across a century of economic colonization. Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Prize by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association Spanish colonization of Latin America came to an end in the early nineteenth century as, one by one, countries from Bolivia to Chile declared their independence. But soon another empire exerted control over the region through markets and trade dealings—Britain. Merchants, developers, and politicians seized on the opportunity to bring the newly independent nations under the sway of British financial power, subjecting them to an informal empire that lasted into the twentieth century. In The Forms of Informal Empire, Jessie Reeder reveals that this economic imperial control was founded on an audacious conceptual paradox: that Latin America should simultaneously be both free and unfree. As a result, two of the most important narrative tropes of empire—progress and family—grew strained under the contradictory logic of an informal empire. By reading a variety of texts in English and Spanish—including Simón Bolívar's letters and essays, poetry by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and novels by Anthony Trollope and Vicente Fidel López—Reeder challenges the conventional wisdom that informal empire was simply an extension of Britain's vast formal empire. In her compelling formalist account of the structures of imperial thought, informal empire emerges as a divergent, intractable concept throughout the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. The Forms of Informal Empire goes where previous studies of informal empire and the British nineteenth century have not, offering nuanced and often surprising close readings of British and Latin American texts in their original languages. Reeder's comparative approach provides a new vision of imperial power and makes a forceful case for expanding the archive of British literary studies.
British Policy and the Independence of Latin America
Title | British Policy and the Independence of Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | William W. Kaufmann |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1967-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780714611105 |
First published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Britain and the Independence of Latin America, 1812-1830
Title | Britain and the Independence of Latin America, 1812-1830 PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Charles Kingsley Webster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1944 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Britain and Latin America
Title | Britain and Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division |
Publisher | |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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