List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index