Abstract
For Argentina, and particularly Buenos Aires, no economic relations were more intense in the 19th century than those it maintained with Great Britain. Its whole industrial, trade, and financial structure depended on Britain, despite the fact that Argentina was not a colony, nor was there a British military force or a centralized institutional system to defend investments. The origins of this relationship can be traced to the events of the late 18th century, when consumer goods from Great Britain achieved absolute supremacy in Buenos Aires due to certain peculiarities in the city’s history.
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Schávelzon, D. Argentina and Great Britain: Studying an Asymmetrical Relationship through Domestic Material Culture. Hist Arch 47, 10–25 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03376886
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