书目

InformalEmpireinLatinAmerica:Culture,Commerce,andCapital

内容简介

AninterdisciplinaryinterrogationoftheconceptofBritish‘informalempire’inLatinAmerica.Buildsuponrecentadvancesinthehistoriographyofimperialismandstudiesofthenineteenth-centurymodernworld,mostobviouslytheworkofAnnStoler,CatherineHallandC.A.BaylyCombinesacomparativeperspectivewiththejuxtapositionofpoliticaleconomy,culturalhistory,genderedandpostcolonialapproachesByproposinganddebatingalternativeexplanatorymodels,thebookbreathesnewlifeintotheflaggingconceptof‘informalempire’IlluminatesthestudyofBritishimperialism,fromwhichLatinAmericaisusuallyconspicuousonlybyitsabsence,andprovidesabroadandsoundbasisforinterpretingthecomplexprocessesofnation-buildingandstate-formationinLatinAmericaIncludesessaysbyscholarswhohavebeenshapingthedebateforseveraldecades,alongsideworkbyayoungergenerationofresearcherskeentore-conceptualiseandre-assesstherolesofcommerceandcultureinshapinginformalempire

作者简介

MatthewBrownisaLecturerinLatinAmericanStudiesattheUniversityofBristol.HeistheauthorofAdventuringthroughSpanishColonies:SimónBolívar,ForeignMercenariesandtheBirthofNewNations(2006).

丛书

BulletinofLatinAmericanResearchBookSeries

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