Bunker, Steven B.,  1970- <br/><br/>
Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio DíazSteven B. Bunker. 

 - Albuquerque :  University of New Mexico Press,  (c)2012. 
 - 1 online resource (pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780826344564 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Díaz, Porfirio, 1830-1915. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Consumers--History--Mexico--20th century.<br/>Consumption (Economics)--History--Mexico--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC140  / .C743 2012