02810nam 2200601 a 450 991081026780332120230126205832.01-283-83545-20-8263-4456-9(CKB)2670000000277349(EBL)1104413(OCoLC)822667198(SSID)ssj0000759315(PQKBManifestationID)11517309(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759315(PQKBWorkID)10783040(PQKB)11117048(MiAaPQ)EBC1104413(MdBmJHUP)muse19766(Au-PeEL)EBL1104413(CaPaEBR)ebr10629191(CaONFJC)MIL414795(EXLCZ)99267000000027734920120719d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCreating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz[electronic resource] /Steven B. BunkerAlbuquerque University of New Mexico Pressc20121 online resource (349 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8263-4454-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.ConsumersMexicoHistory20th centuryConsumption (Economics)MexicoHistory20th centuryMexicoCommerceHistory20th centuryMexicoSocial conditions20th centuryMexicoHistory1867-1910ConsumersHistoryConsumption (Economics)History306.30972Bunker Steven B.1970-1693550MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810267803321Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz4071419UNINA