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Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"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.
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
To help combat the problem of the waste of edible food, filmmakers Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustemeyer endeavor to forego grocery shopping and eat only what is discarded during the various steps that food travels from farm to table.
330) Global trade, smuggling, and the making of economic liberalism: Asian textiles in France 1680-1760
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Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
333) American tantalus: horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When you're trapped in a cycle of financial frustration, and you feel like you've tried everything only to end up with more month than money yet again, More Than Just Making It is your promise and pathway to thriving again. Take it from someone who's been there. Erin Odom grew up in the private schools and neatly manicured lawns of Upper Middle Class America, but was thrown into low-income living during the economic crash. She was a stay-at-home-mom,...
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found themselves unwelcome at white-owned businesses. Race and Retail documents the extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have often...