The forms of informal empire : Britain, Latin America, and nineteenth-century literature /
"This is a work of comparative literary study that examines the influence of Great Britain's informal empire in Latin America that followed Spain's relinquishment of its New World formal empire. The author finds effects of informal empire (involving maritime trade and markets primaril...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | "This is a work of comparative literary study that examines the influence of Great Britain's informal empire in Latin America that followed Spain's relinquishment of its New World formal empire. The author finds effects of informal empire (involving maritime trade and markets primarily) in the literary forms of novels, poems, and letters. Britain's informal empire in Latin America lasted from the early nineteenth century until the 1920s"-- |
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| Physical Description: | x, 277 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421438061 1421438062 9781421438078 1421438070 |