Alcohol in Latin America : A Social and Cultural History.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Prehispanic and Colonial Periods -- 1. A Glass for the Gods and a Gift to My Neighbor: The Importance of Alcohol in the Pre-Columbian Andes -- 2. Liquid Fire: Alcohol, Identity, and Social Hierarchy in Colonial Brazil -- 3. Drunkenness and Interpersonal Violence in Colonial Michoacán -- Part 2. The Long Nineteenth Century (1820s to 1930) -- 4. Wine Country: The Vineyard as National Space in Nineteenth-Century Argentina -- 5. Breadwinners or Entrepreneurs?: Women's Involvement in the Pulquería World of Mexico City, 1850-1910 -- 6. Drunks and Dictators: Inebriation's Gendered, Ethnic, and Class Components in Guatemala, 1898-1944 -- Part 3. The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- 7. Pulqueros, Cerveceros, and Mezcaleros: Small Alcohol Producers and Popular Resistance to Mexico's Anti-Alcohol Campaigns, 1910-1940 -- 8. Tequila Sauza and the Redemption of Mexico's Vital Fluids, 1873-1970 -- 9. Essence and Identity: Transformations in Argentine Wine, 1880-2010 -- 10. Of Chicha, Majas, and Mingas: Hard Apple Cider and Local Solidarity in Twenty-First-Century Rural Southern Chile -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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