British Lions and Mexican Eagles: Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889a 1919

The first balanced account of the rise and fall of the Mexican business empire of nineteenth-century British entrepreneur Weetman Pearson (Lord Cowdray), showing him to be much more an agent of Mexican national development than of British imperialism.

Author: Paul Garner
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 09/09/2011
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780804774451

About the Author
Paul Garner is Cowdray Professor of Spanish at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Porfirio Díaz: A Profile in Power (2001) and La Revolución en la Provincia: Soberanía estatal y caudillismo serrano en Oaxaca 1910-20 (1988, 2003).