Toner, Deborah, author.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
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Part of the series The Mexican experience;Mexican experience.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-333) and index.
• 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.
• An examination of sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810 and 1910 Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Mexican literature — Political aspects — History — 19th century.
• Drinking customs — Political aspects — Mexico — 19th century.
• Alcohol — Political aspects — Mexico — 19th century.

Requested by Towle, J.