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The tyranny of opinion : honor in the construction of the Mexican public sphere
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- Creator
- Pablo Piccato
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham, [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0822346451, 9780822346531, 9780822391753, 9780822346456, 0822391759, 0822346532
- OCLC
- ocn454364410
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-369) and index.
- 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