The Falkland Islands/Malvinas: The Conquest for Empire in the South Atlantic

by Barry M. Gough

This study examines the struggle for control of the Falkland Islands since the 18th-century. It explains the Argentine government's far-sighted development of the islands in the early 19th-century; assesses the heavy-handed intervention of the Americans; and explores Britain's reassertion of dominion. The author considers the theory that British colonization was a means of maintaining an empire of trade and commerce, and maritime pre-eminence. This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0485114194
• ISBN13: 9780485114195
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Athlone Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"