Britain and Latin America in the 19th and 20th CenturiesRoutledge, 2014 M06 6 - 288 pages 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. |
Contents
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the Colonial and Independence Eras | 27 |
3 The British Government and Latin America from Independence to 1914 | 47 |
4 Latin America and British Business in the First HalfCentury after Independence | 70 |
5 The Merchants and Trade 18701914 | 97 |
6 The Investment Boom and its Consequences 18701914 | 119 |
Argentina Brazil and Chile | 148 |
8 The First World War and its Aftermath | 179 |
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