Table of Contents:
  • Liberalism, the state, and modern industrial capitalism in postrevolutionary Mexico
  • Spreading the American dream : information, technology, and World War II
  • Prophets of capitalism : the growth of advertising as a profession and the making of modern Mexico
  • Advertising national identity and globalization in the reconstruction of modern Mexico
  • J. Walter Thompson and the negotiation of Mexican and American values
  • In search of markets, diplomacy, and consumers : Sears as a commercial diplomat in Mexico
  • Industrial capitalism, antimodernism, and consumer culture in 1940s Mexico.