Overview
- Examines how Anglo-American relations featured in the international politics of Latin America throughout the twentieth century
- Chapters cover a broad range of countries and regions across Latin America, as well as key episodes and turning points
- Written by leading scholars to offer a truly international history of the central topics that defined Latin America’s engagement with the wider world
Part of the book series: Britain and the World (BAW)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Trade and Commerce
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Revolution and Political Change
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About this book
— Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Honorary Professor, Institute of the Americas, University College London & Former Director, Chatham House
“This is an important and timely book, reappraising the UK’s role in Latin America in the 20th century. What emerges is far more interesting than the usual narrative of linear UK decline in the face of growing US predominance.”
— Peter Collecott, CMG, UK Ambassador to Brazil, 2004–2008
This book explores the role of Great Britain in twentieth-century Latin America, a period dominated by the growing political and economic influence of the United States. Focusing on three broad themes—war and conflict; commercial and business rivalries; and responses to economic nationalism, revolution, and political change—the individual chapters cover a number of countries and issues from 1914 to 1970, stressing the reluctance with which Britain ceded hegemony in the region. An epilogue focuses on Anglo-American relations and concerns in Latin America in the more recent past. The chapters, all written by leading scholars on their particular subjects, are based on original research in a wide variety of archives, going beyond the standard Foreign Office and State Department sources to which most earlier scholars were confined.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rory M. Miller was Reader in International Business History at the University of Liverpool Management School until his retirement in 2017, and previously Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies there. His publications include Britain and Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Longman, 1993), and Empresas británicas, economía y política en el Perú, 1850-1934 (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Britain and the Growth of US Hegemony in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Book Subtitle: Competition, Cooperation and Coexistence
Editors: Thomas C. Mills, Rory M. Miller
Series Title: Britain and the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48321-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48320-3Published: 15 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48323-4Published: 16 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48321-0Published: 14 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-7182
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 318
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American History, History of Britain and Ireland, US History, Political History, Diplomacy