Introduction: ‘An Empire in Men’s Hearts:’ The Liberal Conquest of Spanish America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction: ‘An Empire in Men’s Hearts:’ The Liberal Conquest of Spanish America 1
6. 1. Naturalizing Empire: Helen Maria Williams’s Peru and the British Ascendancy in Spanish America 34
7. 2. Creole Patriotism and the Discourse of Revolutionary Loyalism, 1792–9 70
8. 3. The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey’s Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism 93
9. 4. ‘Thy World, Columbus, shall be free:’ Visions of Spanish America during the Peninsular War 132
10. 5. Lord Byron’s ‘South American Project:’ Aristocratic Radicalism and the Question of Venezuelan Settlement 158
11. 6. The Spanish American Bubble and Britain’s Crisis of Informal Empire, 1822–6 183
12. Bibliography 218
13. Index 237