Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz /
"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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
[2012]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (364 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780826344564 0826344569 |