{"product_id":"alcohol-and-nationhood-in-nineteenthcentury-mexico-9780803269743","title":"Alcohol and Nationhood in NineteenthCentury","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Deborah Toner deftly combines the methodologies of history and literary criticism to show how drink was crucial to ideas about the nation in nineteenth-century Mexico. Informed by the findings of the anthropology of alcohol, this book offers important contributions to Mexican social, intellectual, and literary history.”—Jeffrey Pilcher, author of \u003ci\u003ePlanet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Toner’s blending of literary analysis with medical and criminal reports presents a valuable approach to studies of nationalism, Mexico, and Latin America.”—James A. Garza, author of The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime and Vice in Porfirian Mexico \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Alcohol, Literature, and Nation-Building\u003cbr\u003ePart 1. Imagining the Nation through Alcohol, Class, and Gender \u003cbr\u003e1. Everything in Its Right Place? Social Drinking Spaces, Popular Culture, and Nationhood\u003cbr\u003e2. Patriotic Heroes and Consummate Drunks: Alcohol, Masculinity, and Nationhood\u003cbr\u003ePart 2. Alcohol, Morality, and Medicine in the Story of National Development\u003cbr\u003e3. Yankees, Toffs, and Miss Quixote: Drunken Bodies, Citizenship, and the Hope of Moral Reform\u003cbr\u003e4. Medicine, Madness, and Modernity in Porfirian Mexico: Alcoholism as the National Disease\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Drunkenness, Death, and Mexican Melancholia\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405270884695,"sku":"9780803269743","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803269743.jpg?v=1730489368","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/alcohol-and-nationhood-in-nineteenthcentury-mexico-9780803269743","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}