Nestor Garcia Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl, global media, a

"Americans spend far more time thinking about what to buy, and what not to buy, than they do about politics. Political leaders often make political claims while

`This is an illuminating and topical study, which skilfully blends together theoretical and empirical analysis in search of the "citizen-consumer". It should be

This is the first book to bring together a focus on governance with that on cultures of consumption. It asks about the changing place of the consumer as citizen

In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled o