{"product_id":"ink-under-the-fingernails-printing-politics-in-nineteenthcentury-mexico-9780520344334","title":"Ink under the Fingernails Printing Politics in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the independence era in Mexico, individuals and factions of all stripes embraced the printing press as a key weapon in the broad struggle for political power. Taking readers into the printing shops, government offices, courtrooms, and streets of Mexico City, historian Corinna Zeltsman reconstructs the practical negotiations and discursive contests that surrounded print over a century of political transformation, from the late colonial era to the Mexican Revolution. Centering the diverse communities that worked behind the scenes at urban presses and examining their social practices and aspirations, Zeltsman explores how printer interactions with state and religious authorities shaped broader debates about press freedom and authorship. Beautifully crafted and ambitious in scope, Ink under the Fingernails sheds new light on Mexico's histories of state formation and political culture, identifying printing shops as unexplored spaces of democratic practice, where the boundaries between manual and intellectual labor blurred.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating study of the role of printing technologies in state formation. . . . \u003ci\u003eInk under the Fingernails\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to scholars of Mexico, state building, censorship, authorship, press laws, and the printing press. The text will also be useful for upper-level courses on Mexican history and specialized courses on archives, special collections, and the history of printing.\" * Information \u0026amp; Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1 • The Politics of Loyalty\u003cbr\u003e 2 • Negotiating Freedom\u003cbr\u003e 3 • Responsibility on Trial\u003cbr\u003e 4 • Selling Scandal: \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of the Inquisition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 • The Business of Nation Building\u003cbr\u003e 6 • Workers of Thought\u003cbr\u003e 7 • Criminalizing the Printing Press \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402934591831,"sku":"9780520344334","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ink-under-the-fingernails-printing-politics-in-nineteenthcentury-mexico-9780520344334","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}