Author: Riviere, Peter (Lecturer, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford University)
Hardback; Book; Illustrations, Map, Appendix, Bibliography, Index
206 pages
Published: February 1995
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
ISBN: 1850439133
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A survey of the mainsprings of imperial expansion. Riviere describes how Britain, at the height of its power, was dragged reluctantly (with little thought and no clear policy) into a minor border dispute with Brazil, solved only after sending a boundary commission and an expeditionary force.