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Imperial Skirmishes: War and Gunboat Diplomacy in Latin America

Door Andrew Yooll-Graham

Categorie
Latijns Amerika
Boeknummer
#328466-ZA3
Titel
Imperial Skirmishes: War and Gunboat Diplomacy in Latin America
Auteur
Yooll-Graham, Andrew
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Oxford : Signal Books
Jaar van uitgave
2002
ISBN10
1902669215
ISBN13
9781902669212
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with some b/w illustrations, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Since the dawn of independence in the early nineteenth century, the South American continent has witnessed a series of conflicts, some short and small-scale, others long-lasting and extensive. Battles have been fought over serious issues--border disputes, trading disagreements and oil wealth--but blood has also been spilt over such seemingly trivial matters as manure and the result of a football match. Many such conflicts amounted to little more than sabre-rattling and cost little human life. But not all hostilities were small or trivial. More than 400,000 troops and civilians died in 1865-70 when Paraguay went to war with Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay in the continent's greatest military disaster. In this revised and updated edition of his acclaimed Small Wars You May Have Missed, Graham-... (Lees verder)Yooll also looks back at the Falklands War in the context of earlier foreign adventures in South America. Revealing for the first time the true extent of European involvement in Latin America's internal strife, this book captures the imperial ambitions, the belligerence and the incompetence of Victorian generals and profiteers.
Pagina's
194
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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