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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 population in Chile were foreigners, 31.7 percent of commerce was in the hands of immigrants, principally from Europe, and many of them were British. More than 30 percent of Chile’s imports at that time were from Britain, but from this year on, British business interests in Chile declined rapidly, and in Latin America in general.
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Edmundson, W. (2009). The Decline of British Influence. In: A History of the British Presence in Chile. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101210_17
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