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British lions and Mexican eagles : business, politics, and empire in the career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889-1919
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British lions and Mexican eagles : business, politics, and empire in the career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889-1919 / Paul Garner.
ISBN
9780804774451 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804774455 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011], ©2011.
Physical Description
x, 319 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Weetman Pearson in historical and historiographical context : British-Mexican relations, informal empire, Mexican national development, and the rise of global business in the late nineteenth century
British lions : business and politics in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
The foundations of a business empire : the Gran Canal in Mexico, 1889-1900
The extension of empire : the Tehuantepec National Railway, 1896-1918
The birth of El Aguila and the apotheosis of empire, 1901-10
The empire strikes back : revolution and counter-revolution 1911-13
The unravelling of empire : civil war and World War 1914-19.
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