Alcohol and nationhood in nineteenth-century Mexico / Deborah Toner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toner, Deborah, author.

Series:

Mexican experience

The Mexican experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican literature--Political aspects--History--19th century.

Mexican literature.

Drinking customs--Political aspects--Mexico--19th century.

Drinking customs.

Alcohol--Political aspects--Mexico--19th century.

Alcohol.

History.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

Summary:

"An examination of sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810 and 1910" Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : alcohol, literature, and nation-building

Part 1. Imagining the nation through alcohol, class, and gender. 1 Everything in its right place? Social drinking spaces, popular culture, and nationhood ; 2. Patriotic heroes and consummate drunks : alcohol, masculinity, and nationhood

Part 2. Alcohol, morality, and medicine in the story of national development. 3. Yankees, toffs, and Miss Quixote : drunken bodies, citizenship, and the hope of moral reform ; 4. Medicine, madness, and modernity in porfirian Mexico : alcoholism as the national disease

Conclusion : drunkenness, death, and Mexican melancholia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780803269743

0803269749

9780803274327

0803274327

9780803274372

0803274378

9780803274389

0803274386

9780803274396

0803274394

OCLC:

894747640