Informal Empire in Latin America

Culture, Commerce and Capital

Matthew Brown editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:20th Mar '08

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Informal Empire in Latin America cover

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

"Rarely does a single volume illustrate so clearly how new methods can improve an already venerable body of historiography." (Journal of Latin American Studies, April 2009)

ISBN: 9781405179324

Dimensions: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm

Weight: 390g

288 pages