Absent-Minded Imperialism: Britain and the Expansion of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

by Peter Riviere

A survey of the mainsprings of imperial expansion. Riviere describes how Britain, at the height of its power, was dragged reluctantly (with little thought and no clear policy) into a minor border dispute with Brazil, solved only after sending a boundary commission and an expeditionary force. Centred on the remote Indian village of Pirara, on the border between north-eastern Brazil and British Guiana, the story of the Anglo-Brazilian border dispute...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350183601
• ISBN13: 9781350183605
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 206 Pages