English-Speaking Communities in Latin America

by Marshall, Oliver

• ISBN13: 9780333770153
• ISBN10: 0333770153
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-11
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Since Independence at the beginning of the 19th century, Latin America has maintained close links with Britain. This book examines the cultural and social implications of the relationship through a series of case-studies that focus on British, Irish, and West Indian immigrants and their descendants in Mexico, Central, and South America. The contributors--historians, anthropologists, and sociolinguists--explore the past, present, and putative future of English-speaking communities in Latin America and the relationships with their host societies.

Author Biography

Oliver Marshall is an independent writer/researcher based in London.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
List of Tables	ix
List of Maps	x
Acknowledgements	xvi
Introduction	xvii
PART I: ORIGINS
A Community of Purpose: British Cultural Influence during the Spanish American Wars for Independence	3	(30)
Karen Racine
The British Community of Bahia, Brazil, 1810-1823	33	(18)
Louise Guenther
From Speculative to Substantive Boom: The British in Mexico, 1821-1911	51	(30)
Barbara A. Tenenbaum
James N. McElveen
The Formation of Hiberno-Argentine Society	81	(24)
Patrick Mckenna
Conflict in the Pailon: the British Experience in Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador, 1860-1914	105	(30)
Geoffrey Fisher
PART II: ARGENTINA
The Anglo-Argentines: Work, Family and Identity (1860-1914)	135	(24)
Deborah Jakubs
New Nations and Old Identities: The Anglo-Argentines and the South Atlantic Conflict	159	(22)
Florencia Cortes-Conde
PART III: CHILE
The British Communities in Nineteenth-Century Chile: Engagement and Isolation	181	(24)
John Mayo
The British and their Descendants in Chilean Patagonia	205	(28)
Laurie Nock
PART IV: BRAZIL
Imagining Brazil:P The Recruitment of English Labourers as Brazilian Colonos	233	(28)
Oliver Marshall
British Football with a Brazilian Beat: The Early History of a National Pastime (1894-1933)	261	(26)
Darien J. Davis
PART V: CARIBBEAN BASIN
The Bay Islands English: Stages in the Evolution of a Cultural Identity	287	(28)
Ross A. Craham
Identity in Transition: From West Indian Immigrant to Afro-Costarricense	315	(30)
Ronald N. Harpelle
San Andres: An Islander Comeback?	345	(30)
Jim Ross
Index	375