British Lions and Mexican Eagles. Business, politics and empire in the career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889-1919

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Scholarly work seeking to 'explain the context, modus operandi, and character of the extraordinary business empire which British contractor and politician Weetman Pearson ... constructed in Mexico' and arguing that he should be understood 'less as an agent of British imperialism than as an agent of Porfirian state building and modernization'. Chapters include: 'Weetman Pearson in historical and historiographical context - British-Mexican relations, informal empire, Mexican national development, and the rise of global business in the late nineteenth century'; 'British Lions - business and politics in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain'; 'Foundations of a business empire - the Gran Canal in Mexico, 1889-1900'; 'Extension of Empire - the Tehuantepec National Railway, 1896-1918'; 'Birth of El Aguila and the apotheosis of empire, 1901-10'; 'Empire strikes back - revolution and counter-revolution, 1911-37'; 'Unravelling of empire - civil war and world war, 1914-19'