MACMILLAN Britain and the Growth of US Hegemony in Twentieth-Century Latin America: Competition, Cooperation and Coexistence (Britain and the World)

Product Description “The editors have assembled an outstanding group of scholars in this very welcome addition to our understanding of Latin American external relations and British foreign policy towards the region in the 20th century.”― Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Honorary Professor, Institute of the Americas, University College London & Former Director, Chatham House“This is an important and timely book, reappraising the UK’s role in Latin America in the 20th century. What emerges is far more interesting than the usual narrative  of linear UK decline in the face of growing US predominance.”― Peter Collecott, CMG, UK Ambassador to Brazil, 2004–2008This book explores the role of Great Britain in twentieth-century Latin America, a period dominated by the growing political and economic influence of the United States. Focusing on three broad themes―war and conflict; commercial and business rivalries; and responses to economic nationalism, revolution, and political change―the individual chapters cover a number of countries and issues from 1914 to 1970, stressing the reluctance with which Britain ceded hegemony in the region. An epilogue focuses on Anglo-American relations and concerns in Latin America in the more recent past. The chapters, all written by leading scholars on their particular subjects, are based on original research in a wide variety of archives, going beyond the standard Foreign Office and State Department sources to which most earlier scholars were confined. Review "US imperial power in Latin America in the 20th century at times appeared so overwhelming that it threatened to eclipse our understanding of the role played by other external actors. This book goes a long way towards correcting this neglect in the case of the United Kingdom, itself a leading power in the region in the 19th century. The editors have assembled an outstanding group of scholars who show through the use of a wide range of sources that Great Britain clung tenaciously to its previously privileged position for longer than widely assumed. A very welcome addition to our understanding of Latin American external relations and British foreign policy towards the region in the 20th century." (Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Honorary Professor, Institute of the Americas, University College London)  From the Back Cover “The editors have assembled an outstanding group of scholars in this very welcome addition to our understanding of Latin American external relations and British foreign policy towards the region in the 20th century.”― Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Honorary Professor, Institute of the Americas, University College London & Former Director, Chatham House“This is an important and timely book, reappraising the UK’s role in Latin America in the 20th century. What emerges is far more interesting than the usual narrative  of linear UK decline in the face of growing US predominance.”― Peter Collecott, CMG, UK Ambassador to Brazil, 2004–2008This book explores the role of Great Britain in twentieth-century Latin America, a period dominated by the growing political and economic influence of the United States. Focusing on three broad themes―war and conflict; commercial and business rivalries; and responses to economic nationalism, revolution, and political change―the individual chapters cover a number of countries and issues from 1914 to 1970, stressing the reluctance with which Britain ceded hegemony in the region. An epilogue focuses on Anglo-American relations and concerns in Latin America in the more recent past. The chapters, all written by leading scholars on their particular subjects, are based on original research in a wide variety of archives, going beyond the standard Foreign Office and State Department sources to which most earlier scholars were confined. About the Author Thomas C. Mills is Lecturer in Diplomatic and International History and Deputy Director of the Centre for War and Diplomacy at Lancaster University. His previou