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A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750–1920 (review)

All the essays are clearly written and accessible. All show sensitivity to the many ironies of the socialist tourist experience, and all have brought considerable wit to their efforts. The illustrations, of which there could have been more, reinforce the authors’ arguments. While studies of consumption are not new, this volume takes the field in an important direction. It should find many readers in the fields of Soviet history, popular culture and, of course, travel. It is also that rarest of all academic books—great beach reading.