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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.
LIBRA TA140.C67 G37 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garner, Paul H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cowdray, Weetman Pearson, Viscount, 1856-1927.
- Cowdray, Weetman Pearson.
- Engineers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Engineers.
- Relations.
- Corporations, British.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Mexico.
- Businessmen--Great Britain--Biography.
- Businessmen.
- Corporations, British--Mexico--History.
- Great Britain--Relations--Mexico.
- Mexico--Relations--Great Britain.
- Mexico--History--1867-1910.
- Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 319 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804774451
- 0804774455
- OCLC:
- 707886948
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