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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The ‘Disaster’ of the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the Algeciras Conference of 1906n now needed international allies to achieve one of its central foreign policy aims, in this case, preventing French dominance of the coastal approaches to the Gibraltar Strait. The two crises revealed Britain’s growing vulnerability and Spain’s now unequivocal role as an informal dependency, a quas

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The Spanish Challenge to Britain’s Free Trade Imperialism Flórez Estrada, the Asturian politician and economist. For Güell, it was Richard Cobden, the Manchester manufacturers’ leader and British politician. The very public arguments between each of these pairs reveal the common assumptions as well as bitter divisions of opinion between those supporting a

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The Rise of Economic Nationalisminated the nineteenth century, a broader debate emerged over how to mobilise the state to build a modern economy capable of competing in a rapidly industrialising continent. As progressive and strongly patriotic liberals, Alzola and Alba were close colleagues in the construction of a programme for n

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Economic Nationalism to Autarkylly competitive European power. A decade later, Suanzes, as Franco’s industry minister, was the architect of a radical policy of economic autarky that rejected foreign trade and sought to construct a self-sufficient economic empire in Africa. The third and final phase of Spain’s economic policy jour

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Conclusione economic nationalism in the interwar period. A wide range of other domestic cultural, institutional and political factors shaped Spain’s response to the new and powerful forces of international capitalism. Nor was Britain’s the only imperial influence on Spain: in the 1850s and 1860s, France had a

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20734-1 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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