Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Class Formation in the Barrios 19
6. 2 Competing in the Transnational Marketplace 43
7. 3 Repackaging Popular Melodrama 85
8. 4 Mass-Cultural Nation Building 133
9. 5 Politicizing Populism 177
10. Epilogue The Rise of the Middle Class, 1955–1976 215
11. Notes 225
12. Bibliography 251
13. Index 269