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Author Kim, Jessica M., author.

Title Imperial metropolis : Los Angeles, Mexico, and the borderlands of American empire, 1865-1941 / Jessica M. Kim
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages)
Series The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Economic history
Economics
International relations
SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Relations -- Mexico
Mexico -- Relations -- California -- Los Angeles
Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Economic aspects
United States -- Territorial expansion -- Economic aspects
Subject California -- Los Angeles
Mexico
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018052925
ISBN 9781469651361
146965136X