{"product_id":"the-forms-of-informal-empire-9781421438061","title":"The Forms of Informal Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ambitious comparative study of British and Latin American literature produced across a century of economic colonization.   Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Prize by the Northeast Victorian Studies AssociationSpanish colonization of Latin America came to an end in the early nineteenth century as, one by one, countries from Bolivia to Chile declared their independence. But soon another empire exerted control over the region through markets and trade dealingsBritain. Merchants, developers, and politicians seized on the opportunity to bring the newly independent nations under the sway of British financial power, subjecting them to an informal empire that lasted into the twentieth century. In The Forms of Informal Empire, Jessie Reeder reveals that this economic imperial control was founded on an audacious conceptual paradox: that Latin America should simultaneously be both free and unfree. As a result, two of the most important narrative tropes of empireprogress and familygrew strained unde\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe history of the informal British empire as recounted by Jessie Reeder is an exciting narration of the intense, complex and original work of persuasion – and self-persuasion – vis-à-vis the possibility that Latin America could be both free and dependent, a persuasion which involved all the main actors, albeit in different ways.\u003cbr\u003e—Laura Fotia, \u003ci\u003eJournal of European Economic History \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Freedom and Empire in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. Progress and Informal Empire, 1808-1875: Sequence, Protagonist, Paradox\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. (In)dependence: Simón Bolívar and Revolutionary Forms of Progress\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. \"Dependant Kings\": Anna Barbauld and a Paradox Deterred\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Anthony Trollope and the Collapse of Historical Telos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II. Family and Informal Empire, 1840-1926: Origin, Generation, Relation, Hybridity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Vicente Fidel López Re-members the Nation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. H. Rider Haggard and the Antagonism of Valid Fiancées\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Where Progress and Family (Almost) Meet: William Henry Hudson and the Industrialization of the Pampas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408138084695,"sku":"9781421438061","price":68.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421438061.jpg?v=1730501726","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-forms-of-informal-empire-9781421438061","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}