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Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz /

"In Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that "incredible things are happening in this world." The mod...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bunker, Steven B., 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.