British Relations with Mexico since the Colonial Era

Anglo-Mexicana

Dr Mark Lawrence (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-50694-7 (ISBN)

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Through a focus on the role of war in shaping attitudes, British Relations with Mexico since the Colonial Era examines the historical relationship between Britain and Mexico for the first time. Mark Lawrence insightfully traces Mexico’s journey from being an object of smuggling and ‘Black Legend’ myth-making during the centuries of Spanish colonialism to its emergence in the 19th century as an offbeat destination for Britain’s tourists, adventurers, mercenaries and traders. Lawrence reflects on how commercial interests pre-empted diplomatic recognition of Mexican independence and analyses the century of entanglements in war and peace which followed. The book then goes on to consider Britain’s secondary role to the USA in terms of investments and informal empire in Mexico after 1914.

Using biographies, travel narratives, and diplomatic evidence from Britain, Mexico, and sources held in US libraries, this book offers a uniquely entwined history of Mexican relations, distinct from dominant binary visions of orientalism, inferiority complexes (‘malinchismo’) and informal empire. It is a valuable comparative history that contextualises British impressions by exploring Mexican reactions and Britain’s ‘Anglo’ identity in the context of rising US hegemony south of the Río Grande.

Mark Lawrence is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of several books, including Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), Insurgency, Counter-insurgency and Policing in Centre-West Mexico, 1926-1929 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) and The Spanish Civil Wars (2017, Bloomsbury Academic), which was translated into Spanish as well as being named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.

Introduction
1. Mexico in British Eyes, c. 1520-1810
2. Britain in Mexican Eyes, c. 1520-1810
3. Mexico in British Eyes between Independence and Revolution (c. 1810-1910)
4. Britain in Mexican Eyes, c. 1810-1910
5. Twentieth-Century Anglo-Mexicana: Mexico in British Eyes
6. Twentieth-Century Anglo-Mexicana: Britain in Mexican Eyes
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.9.2026
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-350-50694-X / 135050694X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-50694-7 / 9781350506947
Zustand	Neuware