British lions and Mexican eagles
Subtitle: business, politics, and empire in the career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889-1919
By: Paul Garner
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780804774451
Subjects: British Corporations; Businessmen; Biography; History; Relations; Engineers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: British lions : business and politics in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain; title: The foundations of a business empire : the Gran Canal in Mexico, 1889-1900; title: The extension of empire : the Tehuantepec National Railway, 1896-1918; title: The birth of El Aguila and the apotheosis of empire, 1901-10; title: The empire strikes back : revolution and counter-revolution 1911-13; title: The unravelling of empire : civil war and World War 1914-19.