In 1806 a British expeditionary force captured Buenos Aires. Over the next eighteen months, Britain was sucked into a costly campaign on the far side of the wor

The author reminds us all of the huge part that British capital, British people and British technology played in transforming Argentina into a modern 20th centu

The first truly global history of the Napoleonic Wars, the world's first world war

This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connections betwee

In the maelstrom of Napoleonic Europe, Britain remained defiant, resisting French imperial ambitions. This Anglo-French rivalry was, essentially, a politico-eco