| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1

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Book Review

Iron Horse Imperialism: The Southern Pacific of Mexico, 1880–1951. By Daniel Lewis. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. xviii + 179 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)

A number of years ago, as part of a broader discussion of the relationship between the expansion of markets and the imposition of European control in many parts of the world during the nineteenth century, Ronald E. Robinson advanced the notion of "railway imperialism." While identifying the locomotive as the "main engine" of European imperialism and the "principal generator of informal empire," Robinson, nevertheless, remained open to the need to test the validity of "railway imperialism" as an analytical construct in other times and places. (See Davis and Wilburn, Railway Imperialism, p. 2.) It is in the spirit of such inquiry that Daniel Lewis frames his present work, a study of the Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico (Ferrocarril Sud-Pacífico de México), a line operating in Mexico that would eventually run from Nogales, in the northern Mexican state of Sonora bordering on Arizona, down the northwest coast of Mexico to Guadalajara, between 1898, when the Southern Pacific Company, a major line in the United States, assumed operation of what had been known as the Sonora Railway, and 1951, when the Mexican government purchased the line.

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