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OILMEN AND CACTUS RUSTLERS:
METROPOLIS, EMPIRE, AND REVOLUTION IN THE LOS ANGELES-MEXICO
BORDERANDS, 1890-1940
by
Jessica Michelle Kim
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(HISTORY)
August 2012
Copyright 2012 Jessica Michelle Kim
Object Description
| Title | Oilmen and cactus rustlers: metropolis, empire, and revolution in the Los Angeles Mexico borderlands, 1890-1940 |
| Author | Kim, Jessica Michelle |
| Author email | kimjm@usc.edu;jessicamichellekim@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-06-08 |
| Date submitted | 2012-07-26 |
| Date approved | 2012-07-26 |
| Restricted until | 2012-07-26 |
| Date published | 2012-07-26 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Deverell, William |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sanchez, George Martinez, Maria-Elena Pulido, Laura |
| Abstract | “Oilmen and Cactus Rustlers” explores what happened when a politically and economically conservative Los Angeles oligarchy with transnational ideas about urban growth collided—ideologically and otherwise—with the Mexican Revolution. It examines how an Angeleno economic elite constructed a relationship between a Los Angeles core and a Mexican periphery in the early part of the twentieth century and how the Mexican Revolution challenged and reshaped this envisaged bond. Focusing on the critical first half century of Los Angeles’ phenomenal growth, this study explores how Angeleno and Mexican investors, boosters, diplomats, elected officials, workers, activists, lawyers, and journalists first forged and then negotiated the relationship between an urban core in Southern California and an imagined and real periphery that stretched across the border deep into Mexico. It argues that regional economic ambitions created financial ties between this Los Angeles oligarchy and Mexico. These economic interests drove Angeleno investment strategies and foreign policy positions. The Mexican Revolution of 1910, however, clearly demarcated the limits of transnational urban expansion and forced Angeleno city-builders to reconceptualize their relationship to Mexico. ❧ In taking up the relationship between Los Angeles and Mexico between 1890 and 1940, this study has several objectives. First, the project endeavors to transnationalize historical studies of the American city, particularly in the American West. It explores how the model of urban core and rural periphery intersected with an international border. Second, it contributes to literature on American empire and foreign relations by exploring the ways in which region functioned both within and outside of the nation-state. Third, it seeks to enhance understandings of the Mexican Revolution by exploring anti-Americanism as part of the twentieth century’s first social revolution. It explores the ways in which Angelenos experienced and responded to the nationalism of the Mexican Revolution. Finally, cutting across all of these discussions are questions about the role of a regional American elite in maneuvering across borders and in and out of the political centers of power in both the United States and Mexico. The study examines the role of a regional elite, intent on growing their city and their fortunes, in shaping international relationships. |
| Keyword | Los Angeles; Mexico; Mexican Revolution; empire; investment |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Kim, Jessica Michelle |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-KimJessica-1029.pdf |
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| Full text | OILMEN AND CACTUS RUSTLERS: METROPOLIS, EMPIRE, AND REVOLUTION IN THE LOS ANGELES-MEXICO BORDERANDS, 1890-1940 by Jessica Michelle Kim A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (HISTORY) August 2012 Copyright 2012 Jessica Michelle Kim |
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