MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aF1416.G7$bI54 2008
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245 00 $aInformal empire in Latin America :$bculture, commerce and capital /$cedited by Matthew Brown.
260 $aMalden, MA :$bBlackwell Pub.,$cc2008.
263 $a0803
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aContributor biographies -- Introduction / Matthew Brown -- Rethinking British informal empire in Latin America (Especially Argentina) / Alan Knight -- The British in Argentina: from informal empire to postcolonialism / David Rock -- Commercial Christianity: the British and Foreign Bible Society's interest in Spanish America, 1805-1830 / Karen Racine -- Britain, the Argentine and informal empire: rethinking the role of railway companies / Colin M. Lewis -- Finance, ambition and romanticism in the River Plate, 1880-1892 / Charles Jones -- Appropriating the "unattainable": the British travel experience in Patagonia / Fernanda Peñaloza -- "Weapons of the weak?" Colombia and foreign powers in the nineteenth century / Malcolm Deas -- "Literature can be our teacher": reading informal empire in El Inglés de los Güesos / Jennifer L. French -- The artful seductions of informal empire / Louise Guenther -- Afterword: informal empire: past, present and future / Andrew Thompson -- References -- Index.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xRelations$zLatin America.
651 0 $aLatin America$xRelations$zGreat Britain.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xCommerce$zLatin America.
651 0 $aLatin America$xCommerce$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aBritish$zLatin America$xHistory.
650 0 $aImperialism.
700 1 $aBrown, Matthew.