Author: Victor Bulmer-ThomasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521372054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book studies the reasons for the dramatic decline of British relations with Latin America.
Britain and Latin America
Author: Victor Bulmer-ThomasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521372054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book studies the reasons for the dramatic decline of British relations with Latin America.
Britain and Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Author: Rory MillerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131787028X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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 the Growth of US Hegemony in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Author: Thomas C. MillsPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030483215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
“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
Author: Jessie ReederPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421438089
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
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
Author: William W. KaufmannPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714611105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
First published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Rivalry of the United States and Great Britain Over Latin America, 1808-1830
Author: James Fred RippyPublisher: New York : Octagon Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Britain and Latin America
Author: Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Britain and Latin America
Author: V. Bulmer-ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Britain, Portugal and South America in the Napoleonic Wars
Author: Martin RobsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857718843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
In the maelstrom of Napoleonic Europe, Britain remained defiant, resisting French imperial ambitions. This Anglo-French rivalry was, essentially, a politico-economic conflict for pre-eminence fought on a global scale and it reached a zenith in 1806-1808 with France's apparent dominance of Continental Europe. Britain reacted swiftly and decisively to implement maritime-based strategies to limit French military and commercial gains in Europe, while protecting British overseas interests. The policy is particularly evident in relations with Britain's 'Ancient Ally': Portugal. That country and, by association her South American empire, became the front line in the battle between Napoleon's ambitions and British maritime security. Shedding new light on British war aims and maritime strategy, this is an essential work for scholars of the Napoleonic Wars and British political, diplomatic, economic and maritime/military history.
Britain and Latin America 1979
Author: Latin America BureauPublisher: Latin America Bureau (Lab)
ISBN: 9780906156056
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Most Latin American countries are characterised by social injustice, economic repression and widespread violations of human rights. Relations between Britain and Latin America. Although longstanding, are largely unquestioned by policy-makers and are rarely the subject of public debate. In publishing this review of British-Latin America relations, the intention of Latin America Bureau is to inform, to question and to recommend. This 1979 review looks not simply at Britain and Latin America but also includes aspects of European involvement in the region.