A Sentimental Education for the Working Man The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910

In A Sentimental Education for the Working Man Robert Buffington reconstructs the complex, shifting, and contradictory ideas about working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Mexico City. He argues that from 1900 to 1910, the capital's satirical penny press provided working-class reade...

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Main Author: Buffington, Robert M. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press 2015
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