Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz

Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz
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Publisher : UNM Press
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780826344540
ISBN-13 : 0826344542
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Book Synopsis Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz by : Steven B. Bunker

Download or read book Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz written by Steven B. Bunker and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Diaz. 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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