Beschreibung:
Deborah Toner is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Leicester and a leading convener of the Warwick Drinking Studies Network.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Alcohol, Literature, and Nation-BuildingPart 1. Imagining the Nation through Alcohol, Class, and Gender 1. Everything in Its Right Place? Social Drinking Spaces, Popular Culture, and Nationhood2. Patriotic Heroes and Consummate Drunks: Alcohol, Masculinity, and NationhoodPart 2. Alcohol, Morality, and Medicine in the Story of National Development3. Yankees, Toffs, and Miss Quixote: Drunken Bodies, Citizenship, and the Hope of Moral Reform4. Medicine, Madness, and Modernity in Porfirian Mexico: Alcoholism as the National DiseaseConclusion: Drunkenness, Death, and Mexican MelancholiaNotesBibliographyIndex