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Paperback Imperial Skirmishes: War and Gunboat Diplomacy in Latin America Book

ISBN: 1566564484

ISBN13: 9781566564489

Imperial Skirmishes: War and Gunboat Diplomacy in Latin America

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Notorious for its recent military dictatorships, South America is less well known for its wars. But since the dawn of independence in the early nineteenth century, the continent has witnessed a series... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Great apetizer for a grand feast

Andrew Graham-Yooll takes his readers through a rapid, breath-taking ride through the wild world of 19th and early 20th Century Latin American military history. While this period involves a great deal of "gunboat diplomacy" in the sense of outside powers imposing their will through force, the title is a bit of a misnomer in that Graham-Yooll provides good thumbnail sketches of the various inter-state wars of the period as well. Obviously, no single volume can do justice to such a vast subject. This book will leave the reader for a hunger to delve deeper.

An engaging and very informative history

Imperial Skirmishes: War And Gunboat Diplomacy In Latin America by Andrew Graham-Yooll (Senior Editor, "Buenos Aires Herald") is an engaging and very informative history of South American wars and conflicts from the 1800s down to the late twentieth century. Wars and "gunboat diplomacy" between Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay are presented in this carefully researched, well written, and very highly recommended account, one which clearly presents both the causes and the effects of human conflict upon the nations of the southern continent.
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