Bunker, Steven B.,  1970- <br/><br/>
Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz  [electronic resource] / 
Steven B. Bunker. 
 - Albuquerque :  University of New Mexico Press,  c2012. 
 - xiii, 333 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2011. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Díaz, Porfirio, 1830-1915. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Consumers--History--Mexico--20th century.<br/>Consumption (Economics)--History--Mexico--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Mexico--Commerce--History--20th century.<br/>Mexico--Social conditions--20th century.<br/>Mexico--History--1867-1910.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC140.C6  / B86 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.30972