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...Stefan Pohl-Valero Given the social and cultural topics that the history of alcohol can illuminate, some aspects of the recent historiography of food could also contribute to deepening methodological and theoretical approaches to the same topics. An additional reason to take into account...

...Gina Hames Overall, the book is a much-needed addition to the study of women and alcohol in an international context. The author's careful exploration of the role of gender complementarity within a patriarchal structure and her examination of women’s power, not only in economic and social...

...Bernard R. Ortiz De Montellano Alcohol in Ancient Mexico . By Bruman Henry J. . Foreword by Furst Peter . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press , 2000 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliographies. Index . xii , 158 pp. Cloth...

...Isaac Campos Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico . By Toner Deborah . The Mexican Experience . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2015 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxxii, 244 pp. Cloth , $70.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...Deborah Toner Distilling the Influence of Alcohol: Aguardiente in Guatemalan History . Edited by Carey David Jr. Foreword by Taylor William B. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2012 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. xi, 212 pp. Cloth...

... and early nineteenth-century American and European cities all underline the importance of alcoholic beverages and taverns in the lives of the poor. The works on the lower classes of London, Paris, and New York also document the social ills resulting from alcohol abuse, most notably, poverty, crime, family...

..., by Guido Pezzarossi, concerns “sugar, alcohol, and biopolitics in colonial Guatemala.” Somewhat at odds with the agency acting up elsewhere in the book, he links Michel Foucault's well-trodden concept of biopower to documents and archaeological artifacts that relate to colonial authorities' control over...

... on the Sociedad Luz, an organization of the Socialist Party dedicated to the education of workers, Dora Barrancos uncovered similar concerns. With the same passion that they demanded better industrial hygiene, leaders such as Angel Giménez also campaigned for moderation in the consumption of alcohol...

... an excessive freedom and leisure. “As a result of excessive eating and drinking, with all their train of harmful consequences, the parents are short-lived and the children acquire frail constitutions.” 20 Hanke ends his discussion of Indian alcoholism by affirming that “the causes of this phenomenon...

.... According to these sources, time in the tropics resulted in “ ‘intense enervation,’ ” which “ ‘starts a craving for stimulants and induces habits of alcoholism’ while also tending ‘to relax the mental and moral fiber’ ” (p. 23). The discovery of vitamin D and germ theory undermined physical fears...

...: The Modern Plagues . Updated edition. Berkeley : University of California Press , 2009 . Garrard-Burnett Virginia . “ Indians Are Drunks and Drunks Are Indians: Alcohol and Indigenismo in Guatemala, 1890–1940 .” Bulletin of Latin American Research 19 , no. 3 (2000): 341 – 56...

... and the inculcation of the capitalist work ethic. Bastian emphasizes the need to create a new type of worker for Porfirian factories, one who had disciplined her sexual instincts and committed herself in the fight against alcohol. Protestant missionaries wanted to create habits of discipline, hygiene, thrift...

... authorization from the company. When the general manager from Culpina personally attempted to close it again, the Ingahuasi peons rioted. The company had learned its lesson; it quickly defused the situation by hiring its own priest and keeping the chapel open. By this time in the grips of the alcohol oversupply...

..., prostitution became labeled as work rather than deviance. The government relied on the port for income and was reluctant to interfere in the daily activities of residents. Because the government derived so much income from the sale of alcohol in the port due to the state liquor monopoly, it was leery...

..., Los gallos peleados , covers the years between 1911 and 1940, a period during which a number of individuals—the subjects of this volume—responded to marginalization, caused by socioeconomic change, “with reactions as varied as unlawful behavior, alcoholism, prostitution, insanity, suicide, and worker...

... of alcoholism and poverty were resounding failures. Dr. Assis Barbosa belongs to the new generation of critics, who find Lima Barreto a true precursor of modernism, the man whose object is to “tell it like it is.” He has been called the secretary of the epoch in which he lived. Lima Barreto was extremely...

... differences and leaves the reader with the impression that political leadership is based on ability, that conflict is structured by sexual differences—men and women fight over different issues in different ways—and that violence is primarily related to alcoholism. These observations are undoubtedly true...

... States received alcohol during Prohibition, Mexican rebels received guns and ammunition. Such informal economies are still part of the US-Mexican borderlands today. The author demonstrates how smuggling activities had great costs on both sides of the border, such as violent encounters with Texas Rangers...

... practices, ceremonial activities (which many times involved alcohol—a usual target for reformers), farming and ranching practices, and education. A somewhat disparate cross section of local, regional, and national organizations attempted to usher in these Progressive reforms on the vast, recently...

... such as Yalahau for which there is a paucity of documentary sources. The authors certainly illustrate the distinct patterns of sugar and rum production in Xuxub and San Eusebio, even if the people who produced those commodities remain veiled from historical scrutiny. Chapter 5 focuses on alcohol consumption...