- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- The American Passage to Mexico
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Imperial Ambition
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1 Arms and Capital -
2 Rival Concessionaires -
3 Ubiquitous Financiers -
4 Building the Railroads -
5 Silver, Copper, Gold, and Oil -
6 Absentee Landlords -
7 Resident American Elite -
8 Boomers, Sooners, and Settlers -
9 Mexico for the Mexicans -
10 Interventions and Firestorms -
11 Crisis in the New Regime -
12 Nationalization of Land and Industry -
13 Cooperation and Accommodation -
14 Return of the American Financiers -
15 Mexico in the New World Order - Conclusion Imperial America
- Endpiece
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Appendix 1 Partial List of American Landholdings and Ownership in Mexico, 100,000 Acres and More, 1910–1913 -
Appendix 2 Partial List of American Properties of More Than 100,000 Acres or of Special Significance, Derived via Government Portions of Land Surveys or from the Land Survey Companies, 1876–1910 -
Appendix 3 American Banking Syndicates Formed to Render Financial Support to Britain and Her Allies during World War I, September 1914–April 1917 - Notes on Archival Sources
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
Resident American Elite
Resident American Elite
- Chapter:
- (p.201) 7 Resident American Elite
- Source:
- Empire and Revolution
- Author(s):
JOHN MASON HART
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter focuses on the resident American elite in Mexico. In the late 1890s and the early 1900s an impressive number of Americans bought great estates in Mexico and took up residence in them. The relatively low cost of land and houses allowed them to live in high style and to operate much larger businesses than that which would have been possible in the U.S. They were able establish colonies, ranches, farms, banks, mines, bars, brothels, and casinos. However, like their absentee and corporate counterparts, these new on-site landowning American capitalists exacerbated the tensions that had long existed in Mexican society over land seizures and labor practices.
Keywords: American elite, Mexico, resident landowners, land, U.S., American capitalists, land seizures, labor practices
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- The American Passage to Mexico
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Imperial Ambition
-
1 Arms and Capital -
2 Rival Concessionaires -
3 Ubiquitous Financiers -
4 Building the Railroads -
5 Silver, Copper, Gold, and Oil -
6 Absentee Landlords -
7 Resident American Elite -
8 Boomers, Sooners, and Settlers -
9 Mexico for the Mexicans -
10 Interventions and Firestorms -
11 Crisis in the New Regime -
12 Nationalization of Land and Industry -
13 Cooperation and Accommodation -
14 Return of the American Financiers -
15 Mexico in the New World Order - Conclusion Imperial America
- Endpiece
-
Appendix 1 Partial List of American Landholdings and Ownership in Mexico, 100,000 Acres and More, 1910–1913 -
Appendix 2 Partial List of American Properties of More Than 100,000 Acres or of Special Significance, Derived via Government Portions of Land Surveys or from the Land Survey Companies, 1876–1910 -
Appendix 3 American Banking Syndicates Formed to Render Financial Support to Britain and Her Allies during World War I, September 1914–April 1917 - Notes on Archival Sources
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
