Oilmen and cactus rustlers: Metropolis,empire,and revolution in the Los Angeles-Mexico borderlands,1890-1940.
详细信息
- 作者：Kim ; Jessica Michelle.
- 学历：Doctor
- 年：2012
- 毕业院校：University of Southern California
- Department：History.
- ISBN：9781267698889
- CBH：3542266
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：2733172
- Pages：313
文摘
"Oilmen and Cactus Rustlers" explores what happened when a politically and economically conservative Los Angeles oligarchy with transnational ideas about urban growth collided---ideologically and otherwise---with the Mexican Revolution. It examines how an Angeleno economic elite constructed a relationship between a Los Angeles core and a Mexican periphery in the early part of the twentieth century and how the Mexican Revolution challenged and reshaped this envisaged bond. Focusing on the critical first half century of Los Angeles phenomenal growth,this study explores how Angeleno and Mexican investors,boosters,diplomats,elected officials,workers,activists,lawyers,and journalists first forged and then negotiated the relationship between an urban core in Southern California and an imagined and real periphery that stretched across the border deep into Mexico. It argues that regional economic ambitions created financial ties between this Los Angeles oligarchy and Mexico. These economic interests drove Angeleno investment strategies and foreign policy positions. The Mexican Revolution of 1910,however,clearly demarcated the limits of transnational urban expansion and forced Angeleno city-builders to reconceptualize their relationship to Mexico. In taking up the relationship between Los Angeles and Mexico between 1890 and 1940,this study has several objectives. First,the project endeavors to transnationalize historical studies of the American city,particularly in the American West. It explores how the model of urban core and rural periphery intersected with an international border. Second,it contributes to literature on American empire and foreign relations by exploring the ways in which region functioned both within and outside of the nation-state. Third,it seeks to enhance understandings of the Mexican Revolution by exploring anti-Americanism as part of the twentieth centurys first social revolution. It explores the ways in which Angelenos experienced and responded to the nationalism of the Mexican Revolution. Finally,cutting across all of these discussions are questions about the role of a regional American elite in maneuvering across borders and in and out of the political centers of power in both the United States and Mexico. The study examines the role of a regional elite,intent on growing their city and their fortunes,in shaping international relationships.