Winner of the 2018 LASA Bryce Wood Book Award This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio D az\'s army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution.
The Porfirian regime sought to control and direct violence, to impos.
The author shows how life in the barracks--not just combat and drill but also leisure, vice, and intimacy--reveals the basic power relations that made Mexico into a Modern society.
Winner of the 2018 LASA Bryce Wood Book Award This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio D az\'s army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution