Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bunker, Steven B., 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Díaz, Porfirio > 1830-1915
Díaz, Porfirio, > 1830-1915.
Verbraucherverhalten
Social conditions
Consumption (Economics)
Consumers.
Commerce.
Consumption (Economics) > Mexico > History > 20th century.
Consumers > Mexico > History > 20th century.
Mexiko
Mexico.
Mexique > Histoire > 1867-1910.
Mexique > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Mexico > History > 1867-1910.
Mexico > Social conditions > 20th century.
Mexico > Commerce > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (364 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780826344564

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