03572nam 2200649 450 99621457620331620230721022802.01-282-17174-797866121717411-4443-0661-81-4443-0662-6(CKB)1000000000794092(EBL)437492(OCoLC)609839515(SSID)ssj0000299634(PQKBManifestationID)11248047(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299634(PQKBWorkID)10242744(PQKB)11414881(MiAaPQ)EBC437492(EXLCZ)99100000000079409220160519h20082008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInformal empire in Latin America culture, commerce and capital /edited by Matthew BrownMalden, Massachusetts ;Oxford, England ;Carlton, Victoria, Australia :Blackwell Publishing :Society for Latin American Studies,2008.©20081 online resource (288 p.)Bulletin of Latin American Research Book SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4051-7932-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Informal Empire in Latin America: Culture, Commerce and Capital; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Cover Images; Contributor Biographies; Introduction; 1 Rethinking British Informal Empire in Latin America (Especially Argentina); 2 The British in Argentina: From Informal Empire to Postcolonialism; 3 Commercial Christianity: The British and Foreign Bible Society's Interest in Spanish America, 1805-1830; 4 Britain, the Argentine and Informal Empire: Rethinking the Role of Railway Companies; 5 Finance, Ambition and Romanticism in the River Plate, 1880-18926 Appropriating the `Unattainable': The British Travel Experience in Patagonia7 `Weapons of the Weak?' Colombia and Foreign Powers in the Nineteenth Century; 8 `Literature Can Be Our Teacher': Reading Informal Empire in El ingles de los guesos; 9 The Artful Seductions of Informal Empire; 10 Afterword: Informal Empire: Past, Present and Future; References; IndexAn interdisciplinary interrogation of the concept of British 'informal empire' in Latin America.Builds upon recent advances in the historiography of imperialism and studies of the nineteenth-century modern world, most obviously the work of Ann Stoler, Catherine Hall and C.A. BaylyCombines a comparative perspective with the juxtaposition of political economy, cultural history, gendered and postcolonial approachesBy proposing and debating alternative explanatory models, the book breathes new life into the flagging concept of 'informal empire'Illuminates the study of British iBulletin of Latin American research book series.BritishLatin AmericaHistoryImperialismGreat BritainRelationsLatin AmericaLatin AmericaRelationsGreat BritainGreat BritainCommerceLatin AmericaLatin AmericaCommerceGreat BritainBritishHistory.Imperialism.303.4828041327.4018Brown Matthew1975-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996214576203316Informal empire in Latin America2877305UNISA