Description: A study of the relations between Britain and Chile during the Spanish American independence era (1806-1831). It focuses on the dynamic, unpredictable and changing nature of cultural encounters to cast doubt on the assumption that imperialism was their obvious outcome and to understand further nation-building processes.
Brief description: Andrés Baeza Ruz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of History, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Review Quotes:
'Contacts, Collisions and Relationships is an original and necessary contribution to the understanding of the passage from a colonial regime to a Republican system from the perspective of cultural and political history.'
Juan Luis Ossa, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez