Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865-1941

by Jessica M Kim and Jessica M. Kim

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469666243
• ISBN13: 9781469666242
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"