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Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941 (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History) by Kim, Jessica M. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"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 t
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- Author
- Kim, Jessica M.
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781469651347
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Economics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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