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Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.In Land of Necessity, historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational and of scarcity and abundance in the region split by the 1,969-mile boundary line dividing Mexico and the United States. This richly illustrated volume, with more than 100 images including maps, photographs, and advertisements, explores the convergence of broad demographic, economic, political, cultural, and transnational developments resulting in various forms of consumer culture in the borderlands. Though its importance is uncontestable, the role of necessity in consumer culture has rarely been explored. Indeed, it has been argued that where necessity reigns, consumer culture is anemic. This volume demonstrates otherwise. In doing so, it sheds new light on the history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, while also opening up similar terrain for scholarly inquiry into consumer culture.The volume opens with two chapters that detail the historical trajectories of consumer culture and the borderlands. In the subsequent chapters, contributors take up subjects including

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Author

Alexis McCrossen; Howard Campbell; Sarah Hill; Amy S. Greenberg; Rachel St. John; Laura IsabelSerna; Lawrence Culver; Evan R. Ward; Josef Barton; Robert Perez; Peter S.Cahn; Josiah McC. Heyman

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781478090823

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Economics