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A History of the British Presence in Chile

DOI: 10.1057/9780230101210

ISBN: 978-1-349-38109-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 18, 2015

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Chapter 11Banking

Edmundson, William

Pages: 169 –174

[In the period when Latin American countries in the early 1800s were struggling for independence from Spain and Portugal, British Foreign Secretary Castlereagh realized that Britain’s real interests were bound up not with acquiring territory in the region but in trade with, and investment in,...
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Chapter 12Railways

Edmundson, William

Pages: 175 –190

[The construction in Chile of the second railway to be built in South America, after a line in British Guyana, was started in 1849, on a fifty-mile track linking silver and copper mines inland of Copiapó with the port of Caldera. On December 25, 1851, a train traveled the entire route for the...
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Chapter 13Education

Edmundson, William

Pages: 191 –196

[British educators arrived in Chile during the closing stages of the War of Independence. Bernardo O’Higgins contracted James Thomson, a Scottish missionary and educator, who arrived in Chile from Argentina in 1821. His commission was to start up a school first in Santiago and then another in...
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Chapter 14Religion

Edmundson, William

Pages: 197 –214

[Much of the story of British involvement in Chile for reasons of religion relates to contact with the indigenous peoples on Tierra del Fuego. There were four native cultures in the archipelago, two of those called Canoe Indians by Europeans and two called Foot Indians.]
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Chapter 15Sports

Edmundson, William

Pages: 215 –220

[A major presence in the history of British associations with sport in Chile, and the early development of sport in the country at large, is the Valparaíso Sporting Club founded in 1882. This was (and still is) mainly focused on horse racing, the history of which goes back to 1869, when the...
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Chapter 16The Battle of Coronel

Edmundson, William

Pages: 221 –227

[The Battle of Coronel in 1914 was the first naval battle of importance in the First World War, and the first general engagement fought by the Royal Navy since the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. The battle between two squadrons, German and British, took place off Chile on November 1, 1914, near the...
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Chapter 17The Decline of British Influence

Edmundson, William

Pages: 229 –231

[Much of the enduring influence that the British enjoyed in Chile was mediated through commerce and industry, and, as we have seen, this presence was considerable in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, although only 4.1 percent of the...
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Chapter 18The Imprint That Remains: Family Names and Geography

Edmundson, William

Pages: 233 –242

[L. C. Derrick-Jehu is the author of a detailed study of British family names in Chile entitled The Anglo-Chilean Community (1965), and he warns the reader that no single researcher could account for the tens of thousands of British descendants in the country. Nevertheless, he was able to amass a...

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