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Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz
- Title
- Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz / Steven B. Bunker.
- Author
- Bunker, Steven B., 1970-
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 333 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Díaz. Through case studies of tobacco marketing, department stores, advertising, shoplifting, and a famous jewelry robbery and homicide, he provides a tour of daily life in Porfirian Mexico City, overturning conventional wisdom that only the middle and upper classes participated in this culture"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-323) and index.
- Contents
- Personalized progress: the production and marketing of the machine-rolled cigarette -- Selling in the city: the growth of popular advertising -- Capital investments: Porfirian department stores and the evolution of Mexico City retailing -- Modernizing capital: constant innovation and the expression of progress -- An all-consuming passion: desire, department stores, and the modernization of crime -- Hot diamonds, cold steel: the La Profesa Jewelry Store robbery -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JBE 13-1082
- ISBN
- 9780826344540 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0826344542 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780826344564 (electronic)
- 0826344569 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2012028934
- OCLC
- 794366613
- Author
- Bunker, Steven B., 1970-
- Title
- Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz / Steven B. Bunker.
- Imprint
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-323) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 13-1082