Land of necessity
Subtitle: consumer culture in the United States-Mexico borderlands
By: edited by Alexis McCrossen.
Contributors: McCrossen, Alexis.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780822344605; 9780822344759
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- Mexican-American Border Region; Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region; Mexican-American Border Region -- Economic conditions; Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : land of necessity / Alexis Mccrossen; title: Drawing boundaries between markets, nations, and peoples, 1650/1940 / Alexis Mccrossen; title: Disrupting boundaries : consumer capitalism and culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1940/2008 / Alexis Mccrossen; title: 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; title: Selling the border : trading land, attracting tourists, and marketing American consumption on the Baja California border, 1900/1934 / Rachel St. John; title: Cinema on the U.S.-Mexico border : American motion pictures and Mexican audiences, 1896/1930 / Laura Isabel Serna; title: Promoting the Pacific borderlands : leisure and labor in Southern California, 1870/1950 / Lawrence Culver; title: Finding Mexico's great show window : a tale of two borderlands, 1960/1975 / Evan R. Ward; title: At the edge of the storm : Northern Mexico's rural peoples in a new regime of consumption, 1880/1940 / Josef Barton; title: Confined to the margins : the origins and nature of the underground economy and smuggling among the native people of the borderlands / Robert Perez; title: Using and sharing : direct selling in the borderlands / Peter S. Cahn; title: El dompe, los yonkes and las segundas : consumption's other side in El Paso/Ciudad Juarez / Sarah Hill; title: The study of borderlands consumption : potentials and precautions / Howard Campbell and Josiah McC. Heyman; title: On La Frontera and cultures of consumption : an essay of images / Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo.