A history of consumption along the U.S-Mexico border shows continuities and discontinuities in the dynamics of the border and the material world available to Mexicans, Americans, Native Americans and others over the last century and a half.
A history of consumption along the U.S-Mexico border shows continuities and discontinuities in the dynamics of the border and the material world available to Mexicans, Americans, Native Americans and others over the last century and a half.
Alexis McCrossen is Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University. She is the author of Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday.
Inhaltsangabe
Maps Acknowledgments Introduction: Land of Necessity / Alexis McCrossen Part I. Histories of Nations, Borderlands, and Consumers 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 Part II. National and Transnational Circuits of Consumption 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 Part III. Consumption in National and Transnational Spaces 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 Juárez / Sarah Hill Reflections The Study of Borderland Consumption: Potentials and Precautions / Howard Campbell and Josiah McC. Heyman On La Frontera and Cultures of Consumption: An Essay of Images / Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo Bibliography Contributors Index
Maps Acknowledgments Introduction: Land of Necessity / Alexis McCrossen Part I. Histories of Nations, Borderlands, and Consumers 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 Part II. National and Transnational Circuits of Consumption 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 Part III. Consumption in National and Transnational Spaces 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 Juárez / Sarah Hill Reflections The Study of Borderland Consumption: Potentials and Precautions / Howard Campbell and Josiah McC. Heyman On La Frontera and Cultures of Consumption: An Essay of Images / Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo Bibliography Contributors Index
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