Land of necessity [[electronic resource] ] : consumer culture in the United States-Mexico borderlands / / edited by Alexis McCrossen
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Land of necessity [[electronic resource] ] : consumer culture in the United States-Mexico borderlands / / edited by Alexis McCrossen
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham [NC], : Duke University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (438 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.30972/1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Consumption (Economics) - Mexican-American Border Region |
| Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects - Mexican-American Border Region | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mexican-American Border Region Economic conditions |
| Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions | |
| Altri autori: |
McCrossenAlexis
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : land of necessity / Alexis Mccrossen -- Drawing boundaries between markets, nations, and peoples, 1650/1940 / Alexis Mccrossen -- Disrupting boundaries : consumer capitalism and culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1940/2008 / Alexis Mccrossen -- Domesticating the border : manifest destiny and the "comforts of life" in the U.S.-Mexico Boundary Commission and Gadsden Purchase, 1848/1854 / Amy S. Greenberg -- Selling the border : trading land, attracting tourists, and marketing American consumption on the Baja California border, 1900/1934 / Rachel St. John -- Cinema on the U.S.-Mexico border : American motion pictures and Mexican audiences, 1896/1930 / Laura Isabel Serna -- Promoting the Pacific borderlands : leisure and labor in Southern California, 1870/1950 / Lawrence Culver -- Finding Mexico's great show window : a tale of two borderlands, 1960/1975 / Evan R. Ward -- At the edge of the storm : Northern Mexico's rural peoples in a new regime of consumption, 1880/1940 / Josef Barton -- Confined to the margins : the origins and nature of the underground economy and smuggling among the native people of the borderlands / Robert Perez -- Using and sharing : direct selling in the borderlands / Peter S. Cahn -- El dompe, los yonkes and las segundas : consumption's other side in El Paso/Ciudad Juarez / Sarah Hill -- The study of borderlands consumption : potentials and precautions / Howard Campbell and Josiah McC. Heyman -- On La Frontera and cultures of consumption : an essay of images / Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational, and of scarcity and abundance, in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Land of necessity |
| ISBN: | 1-282-92375-7 |
| 9786612923753 | |
| 0-8223-9078-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910482022203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.