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Land of necessity : consumer culture in the United States-Mexico borderlands
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- Creator
- edited by Alexis McCrossen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2009
- Physical Details
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- xix, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; cm
- ISBNs
- 661292375X, 0822344602, 1478090820, 9780822344605, 9786612923753, 9780822344759, 9780822390787, 1282923757, 9781478090823, 0822344750, 0822390787, 9781282923751
- OCLC
- on1181684616, ocn659281776, on1311967747, ocn291908101
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-396) and index.
- 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