| Description |
xxxii, 344 pages ; 23 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
The Mexican experience |
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Mexican experience.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-333) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"An examination of sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810 and 1910" Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Mexican literature -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century.
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Drinking customs -- Political aspects -- Mexico -- 19th century.
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Alcohol -- Political aspects -- Mexico -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
9780803269743 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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0803269749 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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9780803274327 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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0803274327 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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9780803274372 (epub) |
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9780803274389 (mobi) |
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9780803274396 (pdf) |
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0803274378 |
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0803274386 |
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0803274394 |
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