The blood contingent : the military and the making of modern Mexico, 1876-1911
Record details
- ISBN: 9780826358059
- ISBN: 9780826358042
- ISBN: 0826358063
- ISBN: 9780826358066
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 383 pages)
remote - Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2017.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 23, 2017). |
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Genre: | Electronic books. History. Military history. |