The Blood Contingent : The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1876-1911 /

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"In the pursuit of the modern, the armed forces served as instrument, model, and metaphor for national progress. I examine in this book how the military experience, as representative of the process, failed or fulfilled aspects of the broad national transition towards hegemony and sovereignty. T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Neufeld, Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2017]
Edición:First Edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mexico. > Ejercito > Military life > History.
Mexico. > Ejercito > History > 20th century.
Mexico. > Ejercito > History > 19th century.
Social change > Mexico > History.
Political culture > Mexico > History.
Nationalism > Mexico > History.
Nation-building > Mexico > History.
Soldiers > Mexico > History.
Mexico > Politics and government > 1867-1910.
Mexico > History, Military.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter One: Recruiting the Servants of the Nation
  • Chapter Two: Sculpting a Modern Soldier through Drill and Ritual
  • Chapter Three: Women of the Troop: Religion, Sex, and Family on the Rough Barracks Patio
  • Chapter Four: The Traditional Education of a Modern Gentleman-Officer: The Next Generation
  • Chapter Five: The Touch of Venus: Gendered Bodies and Hygienic Barracks
  • Chapter Six: The Disordered Life of Drugs, Drinks, and Songs in the Barracks
  • Chapter Seven: Lieutenant's Sally from Chapultepec: Junior Officers Deploying into Nation
  • Chapter Eight: Hatred in their Mother's Milk: Savage, Semi-Savage, and The Civilized.

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