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Author |
: Andrew Paxman |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 545 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190455743 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190455748 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jenkins of Mexico by : Andrew Paxman
William O. Jenkins rose from humble origins in Tennessee to build a business empire in Mexico, a country energized by industrialization and revolutionary change. In Jenkins of Mexico, Andrew Paxman presents the first biography of this larger-than-life personality.
Author |
: Andrew Paxman |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 545 |
Release |
: 2017-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190455750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190455756 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jenkins of Mexico by : Andrew Paxman
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.
Author |
: Peter Jenkins |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0395877377 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780395877371 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Along the Edge of America by : Peter Jenkins
From America's favorite traveler, the sights, sounds, and people of America's Gulf Coast.
Author |
: Joseph Wheelan |
Publisher |
: Carroll & Graf Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 528 |
Release |
: 2007-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015067691165 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Invading Mexico by : Joseph Wheelan
Presents an account of the Mexican War, providing an analysis of its cause, battles, weapons, and outcome.
Author |
: Jennifer L. Jenkins |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2016-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816502653 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081650265X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Celluloid Pueblo by : Jennifer L. Jenkins
Celluloid Pueblo tells the story of Western Ways Features and its role in the invention of the Southwest of the imagination. The story closely follows the boom and bust arc of this region in the mid-twentieth century and the constantly evolving representations of an exotic--but safe and domesticated--frontier and the landscape, regional development, and diverse cultures of Arizona and the Southwest.
Author |
: National association for the protection of American rights in Mexico |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 138 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015074190698 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bulletin... by : National association for the protection of American rights in Mexico
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1194 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000057719412 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Commercial & Financial Chronicle ... by :
Author |
: Carrie Jenkins |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 191 |
Release |
: 2017-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465098866 |
ISBN-13 |
: 046509886X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Love Is by : Carrie Jenkins
A rising star in philosophy examines the cultural, social, and scientific interpretations of love to answer one of our most enduring questions What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components. Love can be a social construct (the idea of a perfect fairy tale romance) and a physical manifestation (those anxiety- inducing heart palpitations); we must recognize its complexities and decide for ourselves how to love. Motivated by her own polyamorous relationships, she examines the ways in which our parameters of love have recently changed-to be more accepting of homosexual, interracial, and non-monogamous relationships-and how they will continue to evolve in the future. Full of anecdotal, cultural, and scientific reflections on love, What Love Is is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand what it means to say "I love you." Whether young or old, gay or straight, male or female, polyamorous or monogamous, this book will help each of us decide for ourselves how we choose to love.
Author |
: United States Naval Institute |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 2110 |
Release |
: 1920 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000046052070 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis United States Naval Institute Proceedings by : United States Naval Institute
Author |
: United States Naval Institute |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1060 |
Release |
: 1920 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101043277738 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by : United States Naval Institute