Pablo Piccato

The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Study of the nineteenth century political culture of male honor among Mexican elites and within the public sphere.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346456
• ISBN-10: 0822346451
• Artikelnr.: 28030591

Autorenporträt

Pablo Piccato

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Honor and the Public Sphere in the Republican Era 1
Part I. Travails of Opinion
1. Setting the Rules of Freedom: The Trajectory of the Press Jury 27
2. Representing Public Opinion: Combat Journalists and the Business of
Honor 63
Part II. Tumultuous Opinion
3. "The Word of My Conscience": Eloquence and the Foreign Debt 100
4. Breaking Lamps and Expanding the Public Sphere: Students and Populacho
against the Deuda Inglesa 129
Part III. Taming Opinion
5. Honor and the State: Reputation as a Juridical Good 159
6. "A Horrible Web of Insults": The Everyday Defense of Honor 188
7. "One Does Not Talk to the Dead": The Romero-Verástegui Affair and the
Apogee of Dueling in Mexico 220
Conclusions 254
Notes 263
Sources Cited 337
Index 371