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Title:  Imperial metropolis : Los Angeles, Mexico, and the borderlands of American empire, 1865-1941 / Author:  Kim, Jessica, author. Publisher:  Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] ; (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) Isbn:  9781469651361 146965136X 9781469651347 (cloth : alk. paper) Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Url:  https://uprrp.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67412/ 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. Series:  The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history. Book collections on Project MUSE. Description:  1 online resource (pages cm) 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"-- Lccn:  2018052925 Add Authors:  Project Muse. Subject:  United States -- Territorial expansion -- Economic aspects. Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Economic aspects. Mexico -- Relations -- California -- Los Angeles. Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Relations -- Mexico. Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. Type:  text txt Media Type:  computer c Carrier Type:  online resource cr   Copy/Holding information No Item Information Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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