Title Britain and the Making of Argentina / by Gordon Bridger

Published Southampton : WIT Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Cover; Britain and the making of Argentina; Copyright Page; Contents; CHAPTER I: Birth of a Nation; Britain and Pre-Independent Argentina; South Americans in London; Britain's Military Involvement in the River Plate; The Aftermath; Creating a New Nation; British Military Assistance; Looking Back; CHAPTER II: The Trading Years after Independence -- 1810 to 1862; The British in Argentina; The Political Background; A Mining Dystopia; The British Traders; The Robertson Memoirs; The William Maccann Memoirs; Social Contracts and Institutions; Looking Back; CHAPTER III: An Agricultural 'El Dorado' Independence -- 1810The Golden Fleece; The Indian Problem; The New Cattle Economy; Immigration; Take-off into Sustained Growth; CHAPTER IV: The Economic Foundations of Modern Argentina; The Railways; Argentina; The Age of Transformation; The Buenos Aires Western Railway; The Central Argentine Railway; The Great Southern Railway; Initial Problems; Railway Colonization; A Railway for Patagonia; The Golden Age; Shipping; Creating a Modern Capital; Looking Back; CHAPTER V: The Last European Frontier; The Challenge; First Settlement; Explorers; Surveys; Indians; Missionaries -- A Fatal Impact Chubut -- A Welsh ArcadiaEconomic Transformation; The Argentine Southern Land Company; Labour; Commercial Development; Looking Back; CHAPTER VI: The Great Economic Take-off; The Barren Decades; The Baring Loan; A Slow Take-off; The Great Take-off; The Great Crash; British Private Investment; Looking Back; CHAPTER VII: A Nation of Foreigners; The British Community; Scots Pioneers; Skilled Workers; Venture Capitalists; Peasant Farmers; Feminist Pioneer; Patagonian Pioneer; Rural Pioneers; Irish Pioneers; English Pioneers; An English Estanciero; Frontier Farming; Farmers under Pressure Founding Venado TuertoWilliam C. Morris -- Teacher; Welsh Pioneers; A Nationalist Melting Pot; CHAPTER VIII: The Age of Sport; Football; Rugby; Polo; Rowing; Other Sports; Clubs; The Impact of Sport; CHAPTER IX: How did it all go Wrong?; The World After 1918; Buses versus the Rest; The Roca-Runciman Agreement; Argentina and the Second World War; The Perón Years; Welfare Reforms; Industrialization and Import Substitution; Foreign Exchange Reserves; Management; Central Planning; Charities; The Legacy of Perón; The Colonial Legacy; British Colonial Exploitation; The Falklands/Malvinas Factor The Prebisch DoctrineA Self-Inflicted Injury; An Unjustified Oblivion; Further Reading; Bibliography Summary By 1914 Argentina had become one of the worlds largest trading nations and, according to some, the tenth most prosperous country in the world. She exported more than all the South American countries together. Argentina was the agricultural 'El Dorado' of the world. It was principally British technology, British capital and British management, combined with massive immigration from southern Europe, which converted Argentina from an economic backwater into the wealthiest country in South America. Buenos Aires became the richest, most European city, in the southern hemisphere. Those who have an in Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162) Notes English Print version record Subject HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. Diplomatic relations Economic history Social conditions SUBJECT Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Argentina Argentina -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain Argentina -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007050 Argentina -- History -- 21st century Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056712 Argentina -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97006204 Argentina -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007025 Argentina -- History -- 1810- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007044 Argentina -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007071 Subject Argentina Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012942235 ISBN 9781845646851 1845646851 1283873788 9781283873789

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