Britain and the Growth of US Hegemony in Twentieth-Century Latin America

"The editors have assembled an outstanding group of scholars in this verywelcome addition to our understanding of Latin American external relations andBritish 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 Americain the 20th century. What emerges is far more interesting than the usual narrativeof linear UK decline in the face of growing US predominance."- Peter Collecott, CMG, UK Ambassador to Brazil, 2004-2008 This book explores the role of Great Britain in twentieth-century Latin America, aperiod dominated by the growing political and economic influence of the UnitedStates. Focusing on three broad themes-war and conflict; commercial andbusiness rivalries; and responses to economic nationalism, revolution, andpolitical change-the individual chapters cover a number of countries and issuesfrom 1914 to 1970, stressing the reluctance with which Britain ceded hegemonyin the region. An epilogue focuses on Anglo-American relations and concerns inLatin America in the more recent past. The chapters, all written by leadingscholars on their particular subjects, are based on original research in a widevariety of archives, going beyond the standard Foreign Office and StateDepartment sources to which most earlier scholars were confined.