"Spain and Britain’s Informal Empire, 1808 to 1936" Topic

"For a century and a half after its defeat in the Napoleonic Wars Spain lay in the shadow of Britain's Empire and its industrial revolution. Like many other parts of the world, notably East Asia and South America, it was never part of the formal Empire but like them, it was subject to Britain's hegemonic domination of world trade, finance and investment. This paper argues that seeing Spain's development in terms of informal empire and colonial domination helps to explain both its fitful path to industrialisation and the contested forms of nationalism that were to end in the bloody catastrophe of Civil War. We can also see many parallels with the relationships that have developed in the post-World War Two period between dependent nations and the ‘informal empires' of the US and European Union…"
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Armand

Interesting find. Argentina as an Imperial Dominion is an interesting concept. The Merkins would hate it since it breached the Monroe Doctrine ;-)

'so much so that when in 1932 the Ottawa conference attempted to create a British Empire-based sterling zone in the wake of collapse of the gold standard, Argentina applied to be considered as an Empire Dominion. '

An interesting comment… best this isn't mentioned very often in Argentina today…

"An Argentine is an Italian who speaks Spanish, thinks he's French, and would secretly like to be British."

Old… but still true my friend Gurkhan… (smile)

You have to added… "he think he work like a german"… (smile).

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Armand