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