Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

An Examination Of Sociocultural Nation-building Processes In Mexico Between 1810 And 1910 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. Deborah Toner. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 305-333) And Index.