English-Speaking Communities in Latin America Since Independence

FLORENCIA CORTÉS-CONDE Director, Communications Programme, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos AiresDARIÉN J. DAVID Associate Professor of History, Middlebury College, VermontGEOFFREY FISHER Geography Department, University of DerbyROSS A. GRAHAM Freelance TeacherLOUISE GUENTHER Assistant Professor of History, St John's College, Santa Fe, New MexicoRONALD HARPELLE Assistant Professor of History, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, OntarioDEBORAH JAKUBS Adjunct Associate Professor of History, Perkins Library of Duke University, Durham, North CarolinaPATRICK McKENNA Independent ResearcherJAMES N. McELVEEN Editor, US Department of StateJOHN MAYO Senior Lecturer in History, University of West Indies, Cave Hill, BarbadosLAURIE NOCK Anthropology Instructor, Grande Prairie Regional College, AlbertaKAREN RACINE Assistant Professor of History, Valparaiso University, IndianaJIM ROSS Senior Lecturer in English and Communications, London Guildhall UniversityBARBARA A. TENENBAUM Specialist in Mexican Culture, US Library of Congress

• Notes on the Contributors List of Tables List of Maps Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: ORIGINS A Community of Purpose: British Cultural Influence during the Spanish American Wars for Independence; K.Racine The British Community of Bahia, Brazil, 1810-1823; L.Guenther From Speculative to Substansive Boom: The British in Mexico, 1821-1911; B.A.Tenenbaum & J.N.McElveen The Formation of Hiberno-Argentine Society; P.McKenna Conflicts in the Pailon: The British Experience in Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador, 1860-1914; G.Fisher PART II: ARGENTINA The Anglo-Argentines: Work, Family and Identity, 1860-1914; D.Jakubs New Nations and Old Identities: The Anglo-Argentines and the South Atlantic Conflict; F.Cortés-Conde PART II: CHILE The British Communities in Nineteenth-Century Chile: Engagement and Isolation; J.Mayo The British and their Descendants in Chilean Patagonia; L.Nock PART IV: BRAZIL Imagining Brazil: The Recruitment of English Labourers as Brazilian Colonos; O.Marshall British Football with a Brazilian Beat: The Early History of a National Pastime, 1894-1933; D.J.Davis PART V: CARIBBEAN BASIN The Bay Islands English: Stages in the Evolution of a Cultural Identity; R.A.Graham Identity in Transition: From West Indian Immigrant to Afro-Constarricense; R.N.Harpelle San Andrés: An Islander Comeback?; J.Ross Index

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