James Bryce's Analysis of Latin America in an International Perspective

Abstract

James Bryce is recognized as a traveler, historian, lawyer, politician, diplomat, and International Relations scholar, who led to an improvement in British-American relations, the understanding of modern democracies, and the establishment of the League of Nations. However, until recent times his portrayal of Latin America has been overlooked by historiography. This article aims to explore his analysis of the region as a historian and thinker of the international, especially in his book South America: Observations and Impressions (1912). In this book, among questions of history, nation, and race, the author wrote about the relations of Latin American nations within them and with regard to the United States and Europe, which shall be explored. These questions were also studied by early Latin Americanists in the first three decades of the twentieth century.