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Concession politics as anti-model

Keith is an anti-model where infrastructure, concessions, and political dependence become a cautionary lineage.

Author
Minor Keith
Year
1899
Track
anti-models
Citation
Minor Keith and Central American railway and concession record, late nineteenth century.
Minor Cooper Keith, photograph, 1917, Bain News Service
Bain News Service, 1917, Library of Congress, public domain

Keith is an anti-model where infrastructure, concessions, and political dependence become a cautionary lineage. Its place in the canon is not decorative. It marks a recurring problem for American economic statecraft: how law, capital, operators, and legitimacy combine when a nation tries to build strategic economic terrain.