Blood Contingent

This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Díaz's army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution. 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.

Aceasta istorie sociala si culturala inovatoare exploreaza viata de zi cu zi a celor mai scazute esaloane din armata presedintelui Porfirio Diaz in deceniile care au precedat Revolutia din 1910. Autorul arata cum viata din cazarma - nu doar lupta si exercitii, ci si petrecerea timpului liber, viciul si intimitatea - dezvaluie relatiile de baza de baza care au facut din Mexic o societate moderna.