Overview: Written in an accessible, jargon-free style, appealing to scholars, students and the general reader alike.Draws on the author’s extensive fieldwork in Latin America and Europe, combining unexplored pr.Drawing on largely unexplored nineteenth- and twentieth-century sources, this book offers an in-depth study of Britain’s presence in Argentina. Its subjects include the nineteenth-century rise of British trade, merchants and explorers, of investment and railways, and of British imperialism. Spanning the period from the Napoleonic Wars until the end of the twentieth century, it provides
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