123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Disrupting Boundaries and Globalizing Historiographies: Consumption, Consumer Cultures, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Disrupting Boundaries and Globalizing Historiographies: Consumption, Consumer Cultures, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

AHA Session 129

Sunday, January 4, 2009: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

Nassau Suite A (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Amy S. Greenberg, Pennsylvania State University

Topics:

Jácome’s Department Store as Borderlands Institution: Culture and Commerce between Arizona and Sonora, 1950–70
Geraldo L. Cadava, Northwestern University

Promoting the Pacific Borderlands: Leisure and Consumption in Southern California
Lawrence Culver, Utah State University

Disrupting Boundaries: Consumer Cultures and Borderlands
Alexis M. Mccrossen, Southern Methodist University

Selling the Border: Trading Land, Attracting Tourists, and Marketing American Consumption on the Baja California Border, 1900–34
Rachel C. St John, Harvard University

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