Format:
XXXII, 344 Seiten
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23 cm
ISBN:
9780803274327
,
9780803269743
Series Statement:
The Mexican experience
Content:
"An examination of sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810 and 1910
Content:
"An examination of sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810 and 1910
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-333) and index
,
Introduction : 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 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.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Mexiko
;
Alkoholkonsum
;
Nationenbildung
;
Geschichte 1810-1910
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=45298
