The tyranny of opinion
Subtitle: honor in the construction of the Mexican public sphere
By: Pablo Piccato.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780822346531; 9780822346456
Subjects: Honor -- Political aspects -- Mexico; Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1861-1867; Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1867-1910; Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : honor and the public sphere in the Republican era; title: Setting the rules of freedom : the trajectory of the press jury; title: Representing public opinion : combat journalists and the business of honor; title: "The word of my conscience" : eloquence and the foreign debt; title: Breaking lamps and expanding the public sphere : students and populacho; title: Against the deuda inglesa; title: Honor and the state : reputation as a juridical good; title: "A horrible web of insults" : the everyday defense of honor; title: "One does not talk to the dead" : the Romero-Verástegui affair and the apogee of dueling in Mexico.