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Informal Empire in Latin America Culture, Commerce and Capital
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Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series
Informal Empire in Latin America
Culture, Commerce and Capital
Matthew Brown
Political Science / International Relations / General
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. Bayly
- Combines a comparative perspective with the juxtaposition of political economy, cultural history, gendered and postcolonial approaches
- By proposing and debating alternative explanatory models, the book breathes new life into the flagging concept of ‘informal empire’
- Illuminates the study of British imperialism, from which Latin America is usually conspicuous only by its absence, and provides a broad and sound basis for interpreting the complex processes of nation-building and state-formation in Latin America
- Includes essays by scholars who have been shaping the debate for several decades, alongside work by a younger generation of researchers keen to re-conceptualise and re-assess the roles of commerce and culture in shaping informal empire
Matthew Brown is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Adventuring through Spanish Colonies: Simón Bolívar, Foreign Mercenaries and the Birth of New Nations (2006).
| Publication Date: | 14 April 2008 |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| ISBN-13: | 9781405179324 |
| Format: | Paperback / softback |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Weight (oz): | 13.76 |