Ink under the fingernails : printing politics in nineteenth-century Mexico /

"During the independence era in Mexico, individuals and factions of all stripes embraced the printing press as a key weapon in the broad struggle for political power. Taking readers into the printing shops, government offices, courtrooms, and streets of Mexico City, historian Corinna Zeltsman r...

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Main Author: Zeltsman, Corinna, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The politics of loyalty
  • Negotiating freedom
  • Responsibility on trial
  • Selling scandal : The Mysteries of the Inquisition
  • The business of nation building
  • Workers of thought
  • Criminalizing the printing press
  • Conclusion.