Titlebook: Britain’s Informal Empire in Spain, 1830-1950; Free Trade, Protecti Nick Sharman Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s),

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70150-4nvestment partners. As a result, the country’s economic and political dependency on Britain waned. However, the outbreak of the Second World War led to a rapid revival of Britain’s informal imperial domination, once again in the form of a Royal Navy blockade of the Iberian Peninsula. This display of

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70150-4tions for Spain’s two interwar dictatorships, the first under Primo de Rivera and the second, following the interlude of the Second Republic, under Franco. There were some common features of these two regimes, notably their profound resentment of foreign economic domination (Britain’s in particular)

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70150-4vestment during the nineteenth century represented an exercise of informal imperial power. In modified form, this unequal relationship continued well into the twentieth century. The second main argument is that Britain’s deployment of informal power deeply influenced Spain’s political and economic d

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Informal Imperialism and the British Empire made the country a target for Britain’s capital investment strategy. Britain used its influence to press a politically vulnerable Spain to adopt free trade and open investment policies, confident that its superior industrial and financial strength would eliminate local competition. From the 1830s t

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Britain, Free Trade and the Spanish Liberal Monarchy, 1833–1856ets. Britain’s long free trade campaign, supported by successive Spanish governments, was faced with the bitter opposition of the Catalan manufacturers, potential rivals to northern England’s textile industry. British diplomats actively and explicitly aimed to destroy the Catalan industry, an echo o

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Britain, Spain and the War of Africa, 1859–1860 in order to pre-empt threats to its vital economic and strategic interests. In Spain, the war stimulated the development of a popular national consciousness in Spain, launched a revival of the country’s colonial ambitions and encouraged a growing resentment of foreign, and specifically British, int