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Informal empire in Latin America : culture, commerce and capital /

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Other Authors: Brown, Matthew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : [Oxford] : Blackwell Pub. ; SLAS, Society for Latin American Studies, 2008.
Series:Bulletin of Latin American research book series.
Subjects:
Great Britain > Relations > Latin America.
Latin America > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Commerce > Latin America.
Latin America > Commerce > Great Britain.
British > Latin America > History.
Imperialism.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • Contributor biographies
  • Introduction / Matthew Brown
  • 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
  • References
  • Index.