TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bunker,Steven B.
TI  - Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio DíazSteven B. Bunker
SN  - 9780826344564
AV  - HC140 .C743 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Albuquerque
PB  - University of New Mexico Press
KW  - Díaz, Porfirio,
KW  - Consumers
KW  - Mexico
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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