The blood contingent : the military and the making of modern Mexico, 1876-1911 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Neufeld, Stephen (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2017.
Subjects:	Mexico. > Ejército > History > 19th century. Mexico. > Ejército > History > 20th century. Mexico. > Ejército > Military life > History. Soldiers > Mexico > History. Mexico > History, Military. Mexico > Politics and government > 1867-1910. Nation-building > Mexico > History. Nationalism > Mexico > History. Political culture > Mexico > History. Social change > Mexico > History. 1800-1999 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Chapter One: Recruiting the Servants of the Nation
Chapter Two: Sculpting a Modern Soldier through Drill and Ritual
Chapter Three: Women of the Troop: Religion, Sex, and Family on the Rough Barracks Patio
Chapter Four: The Traditional Education of a Modern Gentleman-Officer: The Next Generation
Chapter Five: The Touch of Venus: Gendered Bodies and Hygienic Barracks
Chapter Six: The Disordered Life of Drugs, Drinks, and Songs in the Barracks
Chapter Seven: Lieutenant's Sally from Chapultepec: Junior Officers Deploying into Nation
Chapter Eight: Hatred in their Mother's Milk: Savage, Semi-Savage, and The Civilized.