South America and the War

This historical book is a series of lectures adapted for publication, of lectures given in the Lent term, 1918, at King's College, London, under the Tooke Trust for providing lectures on economic subjects. The course of the lectures was in the first instance an endeavor to perform a war-service by drawing attention to the activity of the Germans in Latin America, and particularly to the ingenuity and tenacity of their efforts to hold their economic ground during the war, with a view to extending it after the conclusion of peace. A second object was to examine more generally the bearings of the war on those countries, and the influence of the present crisis on their development and status in the world.