The "Egyptian alibi" in the historiographical debate on the war of the Triple Alliance and British imperialismv
One of the aspects linked to the debate on the Paraguayan War/Guerra Guasú is the on cotton and its relationship with British imperialism as a possible cause of the conflict. Liberal authors reject this position, held by revisionist authors. The work of Brazilian Francisco Doratioto, much celebrated...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Historia
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RIHALC/article/view/13451 |
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| Sumario: | One of the aspects linked to the debate on the Paraguayan War/Guerra Guasú is the on cotton and its relationship with British imperialism as a possible cause of the conflict. Liberal authors reject this position, held by revisionist authors. The work of Brazilian Francisco Doratioto, much celebrated in academia, comes to rejuvenate the old liberal idea that the fault was Marshal Lopez to conclude that theBritish Empire had nothing to do with the war as the Egyptian cotton satisfied fully their needs. This paper presents this "Egyptian alibi", revealing not only the British struggle to get a good, cheap and close cotton, but also the problem of the capital market, cotton production, competition for labor and difficulties political and military to try to prove that the challenge of Doratioto no empirical basis. Thus, the imperialist war thesis should not be ruled by ideological prejudices but taken as a possible line of analysis and research within the framework of historiographical renewal on the subject. |
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