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1 online resource (x, 319 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Between 1889 and 1919, Weetman Pearson became one of the world's most important engineering contractors, a pioneer in the international oil industry, and one of Britain's wealthiest men. At the centre of his global business empire were his interests in Mexico. While Pearson's extraordinary success in Mexico took place within the context of unprecedented levels of British trade with and investment in Latin America, the book argues that Pearson should be understood less as an agent of British imperialism than as an agent of Porfirian state building and modernization. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cowdray, Weetman Pearson, Viscount, 1856-1927.
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Cowdray, Weetman Pearson, Viscount, 1856-1927. |
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Cowdray, Weetman Pearson, Viscount, 1856-1927. |
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Revolution (Mexico : 1910-1920) |
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Businessmen -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Businessmen. |
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Great Britain. |
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Biographies.
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Corporations, British -- Mexico -- History.
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Corporations, British. |
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Mexico. |
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History. |
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Engineers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Engineers. |
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Great Britain -- Relations -- Mexico.
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Relations. |
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Mexico -- History -- 1867-1910.
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| Chronological Term |
1867-1910 |
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Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920.
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Mexico -- Relations -- Great Britain.
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| Chronological Term |
1867-1920 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Garner, Paul H. British lions and Mexican eagles. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011 (DLC) 2011009656 |
| ISBN |
9780804779036 (electronic book) |
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0804779031 (electronic book) |
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9780804774451 |
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0804774455 |
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