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Imperial Metropolis Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941
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Title
Imperial Metropolis [electronic resource] : Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941 / Jessica Kim.
ISBN
146965136X
9781469651361
9781469651347 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"In this ... narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica Kim chronicles the imperial visions of the Los Angeles civic elites who fueled the city's phenomenal growth between the Civil War and World War II. Driven by the belief that an enterprising white-run city deserved to control a nonwhite periphery, wealthy Angelenos invested heavily in Mexican industries such as agriculture, petroleum, mining, and tourism, and transformed the countryside of northern Mexico, both to enrich themselves and to develop their home city as a new site of empire"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 History
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 31, 2019
Series
The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pueblo, city, empire
Organizing capital and controlling race and labor
Revolution around the corner and across the border
Like Cuba and the Philippines
Against capital and foreigners
Highway for the hemisphere.
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