Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘An Empire in Men's Hearts:’ The Liberal Conquest of Spanish America
- 1 Naturalizing Empire: Helen Maria Williams’s Peru and the British Ascendancy in Spanish America
- 2 Creole Patriotism and the Discourse of Revolutionary Loyalism, 1792–9
- 3 The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism
- 4 ‘Thy World, Columbus, shall be free:’ Visions of Spanish America during the Peninsular War
- 5 Lord Byron's ‘South American Project:’ Aristocratic Radicalism and the Question of Venezuelan Settlement
- 6 The Spanish American Bubble and Britain's Crisis of Informal Empire, 1822–6
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘An Empire in Men's Hearts:’ The Liberal Conquest of Spanish America
- 1 Naturalizing Empire: Helen Maria Williams’s Peru and the British Ascendancy in Spanish America
- 2 Creole Patriotism and the Discourse of Revolutionary Loyalism, 1792–9
- 3 The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism
- 4 ‘Thy World, Columbus, shall be free:’ Visions of Spanish America during the Peninsular War
- 5 Lord Byron's ‘South American Project:’ Aristocratic Radicalism and the Question of Venezuelan Settlement
- 6 The Spanish American Bubble and Britain's Crisis of Informal Empire, 1822–6
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Information
- Spanish America and British Romanticism 1777–1826Rewriting Conquest, pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2010