Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives on Spanish America

Volume II: Enterprise and Exploration
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-01168-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 482 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1050 g

The sources in this volume concentrate on British investments in Latin America—both material and imaginative—including new post-independence opportunities for tourism. Excerpts from the narratives of British entrepreneurs such as Francis Bond Head, John Beaumont, and Joseph Andrews provide insight into the heady speculative and exploratory enthusiasm of those whom Mary Louise Pratt has dubbed the "capitalist vanguard" and the ensuing disappointments of many of their commercial schemes, as well as testimonies of more successful (and often exploitative) later British ventures including mining. Accounts of expeditions in pursuit of the "El Dorado" legend overlap with examples from the genre of travel narratives, including writings from the "wild women travellers" in Latin America who were able to capitalize on their tourist experiences in the literary marketplace.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knox, Marisa Palacios

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte: Expeditionen & Entdeckungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME II ENTERPRISE AND EXPLORATION
Acknowledgments
Introduction to Volume II of Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives of Spanish America

PART 1
The First Wave

1 The Speech of Henry Brougham, Esq., M.P. in the House of Commons, March 13, 1817: On the State of the Nation
H. BROUGHAM

2 Sketches of Buenos Ayres and Chile
S. HAIGH

3 Travels in South America During the Years 1819-20-21
A. CALDCLEUGH

4 Travels Into Chile, Over the Andes, in the Years 1820 and 1821
P. SCHMIDTMEYER

5 ‘Junctiana Proposal: Proposals for the Junction of the Two Seas, – the Atlantic and the Pacific, by Means of a Joint Stock Company, to Be Styled, the Junctiana Company’
J. BENTHAM

6 Narrative of a Journey across the Cordillera of the Andes and of a Residence in Lima, and Other Parts of Peru, in the Years 1823 and 1824
R. PROCTOR

7 Six Months’ Residence and Travels in Mexico
W. BULLOCK

8 Journal of a Residence and Travels in Colombia, During the Years 1823 and 1824
C. S. COCHRANE

9 Travels in Chile and La Plata
J. MIERS

10 Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes
F. B. HEAD

11 Journey from Buenos Ayres, through the Provinces of Cordova, Tucuman, and Salta, to Potosi, Thence by the Deserts of Caranja to Arica, and Subsequently, to Santiago de Chili and Coquimbo, Undertaken on Behalf of the Chilian and Peruvian Mining Association, in the Years 1825–26
J. ANDREWS

12 Travels in Buenos Ayres, and the Adjacent Provinces of the Rio de la Plata: With Observations, Intended for the Use of Persons who Contemplate Emigrating to that Country
J. A. B. BEAUMONT

13 Mexico in 1827
H. G. WARD

14 Journal of a Voyage to Peru
C. BRAND

15 Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic
H. L. MAW

PART 2
Visitors and Settlers

16 South America and the Pacific: Comprising a Journey Across the Pampas and the Andes, from Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso, Lima, and Panama; with Remarks Upon the Isthmus
P. C. SCARLETT

17 A Winter in the West Indies: Described in Familiar Letters to Henry Clay, of Kentucky
J. J. GURNEY

18 Travels in Central America, Being a Journal of Nearly Three Years’ Residence in the Country
R. G. DUNLOP

19 Two Thousand Miles’ Ride Through the Argentine Provinces
W. MACCANN

20 The States of the River Plate
W. LATHAM

21 The West Indies and the Spanish Main
A. TROLLOPE

22 South American Sketches: Or, A Visit to Rio Janeiro, the Organ Mountains, La Plata, and the Paranà
T. W. HINCHLIFF

PART 3

Women Travelers

23 Journal of a Residence in Chile, During the Year 1822; and a Voyage from Chile to Brazil, in 1823
M. GRAHAM

24 Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
F. CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA

25 Travels in the United States, etc: During 1849 and 1850
E. STUART WORTLEY

26 Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
M. SEACOLE

27 A Woman’s Wanderings in the Western World: A Series of Letters addressed to Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M. P. by his daughter Mrs. Bromley
C. BROMLEY

28 Recollections of Central America and the West Coast of Africa
MRS. H. G. FOOTE

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marisa Knox is a professor in the Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.