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Author Piccato, Pablo.

Title The tyranny of opinion : honor in the construction of the Mexican public sphere / Pablo Piccato
Published Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 388 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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 -- Against 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
Summary Study of the nineteenth century political culture of male honor among Mexican elites and within the public sphere
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-369) and index
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Subject Honor -- Political aspects -- Mexico
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Honor -- Political aspects
Politics and government
SUBJECT Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1861-1867. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084610
Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1867-1910. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084611
Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084613
Subject Mexico
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822391753
0822391759
1283036282
9781283036283
9786613036285
6613036285