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Jenkins of Mexico
Author | : Andrew Paxman |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780190455743 |
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William O. Jenkins (1878-1963) was a Tennessee farm boy who ventured to Mexico in search of fortune and became that country's wealthiest and most infamous industrialist. Dropping out of Vanderbilt, Jenkins eloped with a southern belle and settled in Mexico in 1901. Driven by a desire to prove himself - first to his wife's snobbish family, then to elites who disdained him as an American - Jenkins would spend the next six decades building an enormous fortune in textiles, property, sugar, banking, and film
Jenkins of Mexico
Author | : Andrew Paxman |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2017-04-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780190455750 |
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In the city of Puebla there lived an American who made himself into the richest man in Mexico. Driven by a steely desire to prove himself-first to his wife's family, then to Mexican elites-William O. Jenkins rose from humble origins in Tennessee to build a business empire in a country energized by industrialization and revolutionary change. In Jenkins of Mexico, Andrew Paxman presents the first biography of this larger-than-life personality. When the decade-long Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910, Jenkins preyed on patrician property owners and bought up substantial real estate. He suffered a scare with a firing squad and then a kidnapping by rebels, an episode that almost triggered a US invasion. After the war he owned textile mills, developed Mexico's most productive sugar plantation, and helped finance the rise of a major political family, the Ávila Camachos. During the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s-50s, he lorded over the film industry with his movie theater monopoly and key role in production. By means of Mexico's first major hostile takeover, he bought the country's second-largest bank. Reputed as an exploiter of workers, a puppet-master of politicians, and Mexico's wealthiest industrialist, Jenkins was the gringo that Mexicans loved to loathe. After his wife's death, he embraced philanthropy and willed his entire fortune to a foundation named for her, which co-founded two prestigious universities and funded projects to improve the lives of the poor in his adopted country. Using interviews with Jenkins' descendants, family papers, and archives in Puebla, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Washington, Jenkins of Mexico tells a contradictory tale of entrepreneurship and monopoly, fearless individualism and cozy deals with power-brokers, embrace of US-style capitalism and political anti-Americanism, and Mexico's transformation from semi-feudal society to emerging economic power.
Water Treaty with Mexico
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1888 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) |
ISBN | : UOM:39015037068759 |
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Along the Edge of America
Author | : Peter Jenkins |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0395877377 |
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From America's favorite traveler, the sights, sounds, and people of America's Gulf Coast.
Congressional Record
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1462 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044116499377 |
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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Investigation of Mexican Affairs
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 946 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Americans |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105010209620 |
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Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol 76
Author | : Katherine D. McCann |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 2023-04-11 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781477326619 |
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Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
Author | : United States. Department of State |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1004 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105009919791 |
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