Imperial metropolis : Los Angeles, Mexico, and the borderlands of American empire, 1865–1941 / Jessica Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Jessica, author.

Series:

David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.

The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Territorial expansion--Economic aspects.

United States.

Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920--Economic aspects.

Mexico.

Mexico--Relations--California--Los Angeles.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Relations--Mexico.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Economic conditions--20th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Economic conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from pdf title page (EBSCO, viewed on September 29, 2021).

ISBN:

979-88-908564-0-1

979-88-908564-1-8

1-4696-5136-X

OCLC:

1112064591