Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz write by Steven B. Bunker. This book was released on 2012-12-15. Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that “incredible things are happening in this world.” The modernity he marvels over is the new availability of cheap and useful goods. Steven Bunker’s study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Díaz, how they provided proof to Mexicans that “incredible things are happening in this world.” In urban areas, and especially Mexico City, being a consumer increasingly defined what it meant to be Mexican. In an effort to reconstruct everyday life in Porfirian Mexico, Bunker surveys the institutions and discourses of consumption and explores how individuals and groups used the goods, practices, and spaces of urban consumer culture to construct meaning and identities in the rapidly evolving social and physical landscape of the capital city and beyond. Through case studies of tobacco marketing, department stores, advertising, shoplifting, and a famous jewelry robbery and homicide, he provides a colorful walking tour of daily life in Porfirian Mexico City. Emphasizing the widespread participation in this consumer culture, Bunker’s work overturns conventional wisdom that only the middle and upper classes participated in this culture.
Positivism, Science and ‘The Scientists’ in Porfirian Mexico
Positivism, Science and ‘The Scientists’ in Porfirian Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Positivism, Science and ‘The Scientists’ in Porfirian Mexico write by Natalia Priego. This book was released on 2016-01-29. Positivism, Science and ‘The Scientists’ in Porfirian Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book breaks new ground in the historiography of Mexico during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz by subjecting to detailed analysis the traditional belief that the ideology of the intellectual/political elite known as ‘the scientists’ was grounded in the philosophical ideas of Herbert Spencer.
President Di̲az
President Di̲az - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook President Di̲az write by James Creelman. This book was released on 1908. President Di̲az available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ornamental Nationalism
Ornamental Nationalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ornamental Nationalism write by Seonaid Valiant. This book was released on 2017-09-25. Ornamental Nationalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Ornamental Nationalism: Archaeology and Antiquities in Mexico, 1876-1911, Seonaid Valiant examines the Porfirian government’s reworking of indigenous, particularly Aztec, images to create national symbols. She focuses in particular on the career of Mexico's first national archaeologist, Inspector General Leopoldo Batres. He was a controversial figure who was accused of selling artifacts and damaging sites through professional incompetence by his enemies, but who also played a crucial role in establishing Mexican control over the nation's archaeological heritage. Exploring debates between Batres and his rivals such as the anthropologists Zelia Nuttall and Marshall Saville, Valiant reveals how Porfirian politicians reinscribed the political meaning of artifacts while social scientists, both domestic and international, struggled to establish standards for Mexican archaeology that would undermine such endeavors.
A Companion to Mexican History and Culture
A Companion to Mexican History and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Mexican History and Culture write by William H. Beezley. This book was released on 2011-03-16. A Companion to Mexican History and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Companion to Mexican History and Culture features 40 essays contributed by international scholars that incorporate ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural studies to reveal a richer portrait of the Mexican experience, from the earliest peoples to the present. Features the latest scholarship on Mexican history and culture by an array of international scholars Essays are separated into sections on the four major chronological eras Discusses recent historical interpretations with critical historiographical sources, and is enriched by cultural analysis, ethnic and gender studies, and visual evidence The first volume to incorporate a discussion of popular music in political analysis This book is the receipient of the 2013 Michael C. Meyer Special Recognition Award from the Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies.
