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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810267803321

Autore

Bunker Steven B. <1970->

Titolo

Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz [[electronic resource] /] / Steven B. Bunker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-83545-2

0-8263-4456-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Disciplina

306.30972

Soggetti

Consumers - Mexico - History - 20th century

Consumption (Economics) - Mexico - History - 20th century

Mexico Commerce History 20th century

Mexico Social conditions 20th century

Mexico History 1867-1910

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.