Latin American Research Review (Dec 2017)

Alcohol and Ambivalence in Mexico and the Americas

  • Ronda L. Brulotte

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.227
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 52, no. 5
pp. 910 – 915

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This essay reviews the following works: Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal, and the Politics of Production. By Sarah Bowen. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. Pp. xvii + 260. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9780520281059. Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History. Edited by Gretchen Pierce and Áurea Toxqui. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 306. $60.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780816530762. Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. By Deborah Toner. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. Pp. vi + 346. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 9780803274327.