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|aInformal empire in Latin America : |bculture, commerce and capital / |cedited by Matthew Brown.
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|aMalden, Mass. : |bBlackwell Publishing,|c2008.
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|axi, 274 p. : |bill. ; |c23 cm.
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|aThe Bulletin of Latin American research book series.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [242]-266) and index.
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|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.
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|aBritish|zLatin America|xHistory.
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|aImperialism.
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|aGreat Britain|xRelations|zLatin America.
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|aLatin America|xRelations|zGreat Britain.
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|aGreat Britain|xCommerce|zLatin America.
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|aLatin America|xCommerce|zGreat Britain.
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|aBrown, Matthew.
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|aThe Bulletin of Latin American research book series.
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