Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives on Spanish America

<p>The sources in this volume focus on Great Britain’s moral financial and diplomatic interventions and ambitions in Latin America. It begins during the wars of independence spanning 1810-1825 when Foreign Secretary George Canning prematurely declared Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly she is English. The independence movements of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies as well as their ancient past inspired Romantic writers such as Anna Letitia Barbauld and spurred British military support and political debate as attested by mercenary Richard Vowell’s <i>Campaigns and Cruises in Venezuela</i> and James Mill's Emancipation of Spanish America.</p>