Britain and Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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Scholarly account dealing primarily with British economic and business involvement in the continent, especially in Argentina, Brasil, Chile and Mexico, largely to 1939 - 'the main body of the text is a detailed analysis of Britain's relationship, politically and economically, with the newly independent states, examining the aims, activities and attitudes of British officials, merchants and investors through to the First World War'. Goes on to explain the decline of British involvement from 1918 in terms of weakened British economic power as exercised through the City of London. Has sections: 1] Origins of British interest in Latin America - the colonial and independence eras'; 2] 'British government and Latin America from independence to 1914'; 3] 'Latin America and British business in the first half century after independence'; 4] 'Merchants and trade, 1870-1914'; 5] 'The investment boom and its consequences, 1870-1914'; 6] 'Three perspectives on the links with Britain before 1914 - Argentina, Brazil and Chile'; 7] 'First World War and its aftermath'; 8] 'Loss of British influence - the Great Depression and the Second World War'; 9] 'The relationship between Britain and Latin America in retrospect'