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Agriculture in California and Mexico
American diplomatic history
American elites
American empire
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Borderlands history
California history
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City and hinterland
Economics
Edward Doheny
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Globalism
Globalization
Harrison Gray Otis
Harry Chandler
History of capitalism
History of the American West
Labor history in California
Labor history in Mexico
Los Angeles history
Mexican Americans
Mexican immigration
Mexican Revolution
Northern Mexico
Oil production in California and Mexico
Porfirio Diaz
Race and ethnicity
U.S.-Mexico borderlands
U.S.-Mexico relations
U.S.-Mexico trade
Urban boosterism
Urban elites
Urban history
Product details
- ISBN 9781469666242
- Weight: 450g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2021
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small town to a global city against the backdrop of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Gilded Age economics, and American empire. It is a far-reaching transnational history, chronicling how Los Angeles boosters transformed the borderlands through urban and imperial capitalism at the end of the nineteenth century and how the Mexican Revolution redefined those same capitalist networks into the twentieth.
Kim draws on archives in the United States and Mexico to argue that financial networks emerging from Los Angeles drove economic transformations in the borderlands, reshaped social relations across wide swaths of territory, and deployed racial hierarchies to advance investment projects across the border. However, the Mexican Revolution, with its implicit critique of imperialism, disrupted the networks of investment and exploitation that had structured the borderlands for sixty years, and reconfigured transnational systems of infrastructure and trade. Kim provides the first history to connect Los Angeles's urban expansionism with more continental and global currents, and what results is a rich account of real and imagined geographies of city, race, and empire.
Kim draws on archives in the United States and Mexico to argue that financial networks emerging from Los Angeles drove economic transformations in the borderlands, reshaped social relations across wide swaths of territory, and deployed racial hierarchies to advance investment projects across the border. However, the Mexican Revolution, with its implicit critique of imperialism, disrupted the networks of investment and exploitation that had structured the borderlands for sixty years, and reconfigured transnational systems of infrastructure and trade. Kim provides the first history to connect Los Angeles's urban expansionism with more continental and global currents, and what results is a rich account of real and imagined geographies of city, race, and empire.
Jessica M. Kim is associate professor of history at California State University, Northridge.
