Jenkins of Mexico
Jenkins of Mexico

Author: Andrew Paxman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-04-03

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0190455764

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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.

Between Raid and Rebellion
Between Raid and Rebellion

Author: William Jenkins

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 0773589031

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Winner: Joseph Brant Award (2014), Ontario Historical Society Winner: Clio Prize (Ontario) (2014), Canadian Historical Association Winner: The James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize (2014), American Conference for Irish Studies Winner: Geographical Society of Ireland Book of the Year Award (2013-2015) In Between Raid and Rebellion, William Jenkins compares the lives and allegiances of Irish immigrants and their descendants in one American and one Canadian city between the era of the Fenian raids and the 1916 Easter Rising. Highlighting the significance of immigrants from Ulster to Toronto and from Munster to Buffalo, he distinguishes what it meant to be Irish in a loyal dominion within Britain’s empire and in a republic whose self-confidence knew no bounds. Jenkins pays close attention to the transformations that occurred within the Irish communities in these cities during this fifty-year period, from residential patterns to social mobility and political attitudes. Exploring their experiences in workplaces, homes, churches, and meeting halls, he argues that while various social, cultural, and political networks were crucial to the realization of Irish mobility and respectability in North America by the early twentieth century, place-related circumstances were linked to wider national loyalties and diasporic concerns. With the question of Irish Home Rule animating debates throughout the period, Toronto’s unionist sympathizers presented a marked contrast to Buffalo’s nationalist agitators. Although the Irish had acclimated to life in their new world cities, their sense of feeling Irish had not faded to the degree so often assumed. A groundbreaking comparative analysis, Between Raid and Rebellion draws upon perspectives from history and geography to enhance our understanding of the Irish experiences in these centres and the process by which immigrants settle into new urban environments.

Diversité de la réponse IgE dans l'allergie à l' arachide
Diversité de la réponse IgE dans l'allergie à l' arachide

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Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13:

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L'allergie à l'arachide représente un tiers des allergies alimentaires en France. Elle entraîne des réactions souvent sévères et ne s'atténue que rarement avec l'âge. Elle relève principalement d'une réaction d'hypersensibilité immédiate médiée par les immunoglobulines de type E (IgE) spécifiques de certaines protéines de l'arachide. De nombreuses protéines et fragments peptidiques extraits de la graine, purifiés par chromatographies et caractérisés par séquençage ainsi que par analyse protéomique, ont pu être classés dans trois familles de protéines de réserve des plantes, les globulines 7S, 11S et les albumines 2S. L'étude de la capacité de liaison aux IgE de ces protéines et des peptides qui en dérivent a été menée à l'aide de 80 sérums de patients allergiques à l'arachide par des techniques de type ELISA. Des allergènes majeurs (entraînant une réponse IgE spécifique intense chez la majorité des patients) se retrouvent dans chacune des familles. Les albumines 2S présentent le potentiel allergénique le plus marqué. Chaque patient est sensibilisé à plusieurs protéines. De plus, pour chaque allergène, les IgE peuvent reconnaître plusieurs régions intramoléculaires. Selon les protéines, les différents traitements thermiques peuvent modifier ou non le potentiel allergénique. Les processus digestifs réalisés in vivo et dans des tests de digestibilité in vitro dégradent complètement les protéines mais ne suppriment pas le potentiel allergénique de l'arachide. Les fragments peptidiques de faible masse moléculaire tels que ceux issus de ces hydrolyses enzymatiques jouent vraisemblablement un rôle important dans la mise en place et le développement de l'allergie à l'arachide

Blue Jenkins
Blue Jenkins

Author: Julia Pferdehirt

Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Published: 2011-10-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780870204272

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When William "Blue" Jenkins was only six months old, he moved with his parents from a Mississippi sharecropper’s farm to the industrial city of Racine, Wisconsin with dreams of a new life. As an African-American in the pre–civil rights era, Blue came face to face with racism: the Ku Klux Klan hung a black figure in effigy from a tree in the Jenkins family’s yard. Growing up, Blue knew where blacks could shop, eat, and get a job in Racine—and where they couldn’t. The injustices that confronted Blue in his young life would drive his desire to make positive changes to his community and workplace in adulthood. This addition to the Badger Biographies series shares Blue Jenkins’s story as it acquaints young readers with African-American and labor history. Following an all-star career as a high school football player, Blue became involved in unions through his work at Belle City Malleable. As World War II raged on, he participated in the home-front battle against discrimination in work, housing, and economic opportunity. When Blue became president of the union at Belle City, he organized blood drives and fought for safety regulations. He also helped to integrate labor union offices. In 1962, he became president of the U.A.W. National Foundry in the Midwest, and found himself in charge of 50,000 foundry union members.