Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

Informationen zum Autor Deborah Toner is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Leicester and a leading convener of the Warwick Drinking Studies Network. Klappentext Deborah Toner is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Leicester and a leading convener of the Warwick Drinking Studies Network. Zusammenfassung "An examination of sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810 and 1910" Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Alcohol, Literature, and Nation-BuildingPart 1. Imagining the Nation through Alcohol, Class, and Gender 1. Everything in Its Right Place? Social Drinking Spaces, Popular Culture, and Nationhood2. Patriotic Heroes and Consummate Drunks: Alcohol, Masculinity, and NationhoodPart 2. Alcohol, Morality, and Medicine in the Story of National Development3. Yankees, Toffs, and Miss Quixote: Drunken Bodies, Citizenship, and the Hope of Moral Reform4. Medicine, Madness, and Modernity in Porfirian Mexico: Alcoholism as the National DiseaseConclusion: Drunkenness, Death, and Mexican MelancholiaNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Toner
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2015
• EAN: 9780803269743
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-6974-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: The Mexican Experience; The Mexican Experience
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous