@article{485676, author = {Bunker, Steven B.,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/485676}, title = {Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz/}, publisher = {University of New Mexico Press,}, abstract = {"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.}, recid = {485676}, pages = {xiii, 333 p.}, address = {Albuquerque :}, year = {2012}, }