{"product_id":"informal-empire-in-latin-america-9781405179324","title":"Informal Empire in Latin America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rarely does a single volume illustrate so clearly how new methods can improve an already venerable body of historiography.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of Latin American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2009)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Cover Images.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributor Biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction (Matthew Brown, University of Bristol).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Rethinking British Informal Empire in Latin America (Especially Argentina) (Alan Knight, St. Antony’s College, Oxford).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The British in Argentina: From Informal Empire to Postcolonialism (David Rock, University of California).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Commercial Christianity: The British and Foreign Bible Society’s Interest in Spanish America, 1805–1830 (Karen Racine, University of Guelph).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Britain, the Argentine and Informal Empire: Rethinking the Role of Railway Companies (Colin M. Lewis, London School of Economics and Political Science).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Finance, Ambition and Romanticism in the River Plate, 1880–1892 (Charles Jones, University of Cambridge).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Appropriating the ‘Unattainable’: The British Travel Experience in Patagonia (Fernanda Peñaloza, University of Manchester).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. ‘Weapons of the Weak?’ Colombia and Foreign Powers in the Nineteenth Century (Malcolm Deas, St. Antony’s College, Oxford).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. ‘Literature Can Be Our Teacher’: Reading Informal Empire in El inglés de los güesos (Jennifer L. French, Williams College, USA).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. The Artful Seductions of Informal Empire (Louise Guenther, Universidade Federale de Minas Gerais, Brazil).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Afterword: Informal Empire: Past, Present and Future (Andrew Thompson, University of Leeds).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407910019415,"sku":"9781405179324","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405179324.jpg?v=1730500927","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/informal-empire-in-latin-america-9781405179324","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}