Alcohol and nationhood in nineteenth-century Mexico /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Toner, Deborah (Author)
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Series:	Mexican experience.
Subjects:	Mexican literature > Political aspects > History > 19th century. Drinking customs > Political aspects > Mexico > 19th century. Alcohol > Political aspects > Mexico > 19th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.