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War, Diplomacy and Informal Empire - Britain and the Republics of La Plata, 1836-1853 (Paperback)
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War, Diplomacy and Informal Empire - Britain and the Republics of La Plata, 1836-1853 (Paperback)
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It became an established practice in the 19th century for the
European colonial powers - in particular, Britain and France - to
exercise hegemony over large areas of the world by attempting to
secure the election of governments that would favour their
interests. Latin America was one such region which the colonial
powers treated as their "informal empire". There has been much
debate about the effectiveness of informal empire and it has
generally been argued that the colonial powers found it more
profitable to exercise control in this indirect manner than to
administer territories directly. David McLean challenges this view,
arguing that in practice there were great drawbacks to attempts to
use diplomatic means to influence the domestic politics of the
nations of Latin America. Attempts to secure peace and favourable
trading arrangements in the Argentine and Uruguay proved extremely
problematic; long-distance communications between the European
governments and their diplomats in Latin America were slow and
unreliable; conflicts between the European commercial classes and
their governments were unavoidable; and the legitimacy of the
merging nationalist movements in Latin America proved hard for the
European powers to contest. This is a new study of a major aspect
of colonial history and should be of interest to historians and to
those with an interest in international relations.
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