Informal empire in Latin America : culture, commerce and capital / / edited by Matthew Brown

• Pubblicazione: Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England ; ; Carlton, Victoria, Australia : , : Blackwell Publishing : , : Society for Latin American Studies, , 2008; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.4828041; 327.4018
• Soggetto topico: British - Latin America - History; Imperialism
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Relations Latin America; Latin America Relations Great Britain; Great Britain Commerce Latin America; Latin America Commerce Great Britain
• Persona (resp. second.): BrownMatthew <1975->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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, 1880-1892 ; 6 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: An 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 i
• Titolo autorizzato: Informal empire in Latin America
• ISBN: 1-282-17174-7; 9786612171741; 1-4443-0661-8; 1-4443-0662-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996214576203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Bulletin of Latin American research book series.