War, diplomacy and informal empire
Subtitle: Britain and the republics of La Plata, 1836-1853
By: David McLean.
Publisher: British Academic Press; In the U.S.A. and Canada distributed by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London; New York; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Rio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) -- Relations -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Relations -- Rio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay); Argentina -- History -- 1817-1860.; Uruguay -- History -- 1830-1875.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1837-1901.
Description: "Essentially an update on John Frank Cady's now-classic Foreign Intervention in the Río de la Plata, 1838-50 (1929). Challenges utility of the 'informal empire' concept in explaining Britain's sloppy handling of its Platine interests in the mid-19th century. McClean is more comfortable with English-language materials (which includes an array of documents from the PRO), than he is with those sources written in Spanish"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-236) and index.