The tyranny of opinion : honor in the construction of the Mexican public sphere / Pablo Piccato
- Author:
- Piccato, Pablo
- Published:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Contents:
- Introduction : honor and the public sphere in the Republican era -- Setting the rules of freedom : the trajectory of the press jury -- Representing public opinion : combat journalists and the business of honor -- "The word of my conscience" : eloquence and the foreign debt -- Breaking lamps and expanding the public sphere : students and populacho sgainst the deuda inglesa -- Honor and the state : reputation as a juridical good -- "A horrible web of insults" : the everyday defense of honor -- "One does not talk to the dead" : the Romero-Verástegui affair and the apogee of dueling in Mexico.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780822346531 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822346532 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822346456 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822346451 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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