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Informal empire in Latin America : culture, commerce and capital

Title
Informal empire in Latin America : culture, commerce and capital / edited by Matthew Brown.
Publication
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. ; Oxford : SLAS-Society for Latin American StudiesMalden, 2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Brown, Matthew.
  • Society for Latin American Studies (Great Britain)
Description
xi, 274 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Bulletin of Latin American research book series
Subject
  • British > Latin America > History
  • Imperialism
  • Great Britain > Relations > Latin America
  • Latin America > Relations > Great Britain
  • Great Britain > Commerce > Latin America
  • Latin America > Commerce > Great Britain
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Rethinking British informal empire in Latin America (Especially Argentina) / Alan Knight -- The British in Argentina : from informal empire to postcolonialism / David Rock -- Commercial Christianity : the British and Foreign Bible Society's interest in Spanish America, 1805-1830 / Karen Racine -- Britain, the Argentine and informal empire : rethinking the role of railway companies / Colin M. Lewis -- Finance, ambition and romanticism in the River Plate, 1880-1892 / Charles Jones -- Appropriating the "unattainable" : the British travel experience in Patagonia / Fernanda Peñaloza -- "Weapons of the weak?" Colombia and foreign powers in the nineteenth century / Malcolm Deas -- "Literature can be our teacher" : reading informal empire in El Inglés de los Güesos / Jennifer L. French -- The artful seductions of informal empire / Louise Guenther -- Afterword : informal empire : past, present and future / Andrew Thompson.
Call Number
JBE 08-1705
ISBN
  • 9781405179324 (pbk.)
  • 1405179325 (pbk.)
OCLC
247002927
Title
Informal empire in Latin America : culture, commerce and capital / edited by Matthew Brown.
Imprint
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. ; Oxford : SLAS-Society for Latin American StudiesMalden, 2008.
Series
Bulletin of Latin American research book series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Brown, Matthew.
Society for Latin American Studies (Great Britain)
Research Call Number
JBE 08-1705
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