Britain’s Informal Empire in Spain, 1830-1950

Nick Sharman is a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham where his subject is the economic and political relationship between Britain and Spain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has had a career in business and in local and regional government and has written widely on strategic regeneration policy issues and more recently, on the history of the Anglo-Spanish relationship.

• Foreword.-PART ONE: British Informal Imperialism and Spain.-Chapter One: Informal Imperialism and the British Empire.-The Spanish Reaction to Britain’s Informal Imperialism.-Chapter 2: Britain, Free Trade and the Spanish Liberal Monarchy, 1833 to 1856.-Chapter 3: Britain, Spain and the War of Africa, 1859-1860.-Chapter 4: The ‘Disaster’ of the Spanish American War of 1898 and the Algeciras Conference of 1906.-Chapter 5: Informal Imperialism and Total War: Britain and Spain in the First World War.-Chapter 6: The Second World War: revival and demise of Britain’s informal empire in Spain.-PART TWO: Spain’s Response to Britain’s Informal Imperialism.-Chapter 7: The Spanish Challenge to Britain’s Free Trade Imperialism.-Chapter 8: The Rise of Economic Nationalism.-Chapter 9: Economic Nationalism to Autarky.-Chapter 9: Economic Nationalism to Autarky.-References.-Index