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

Name: Tyranny of Opinion Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere
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ISBN: 9780822346456

ISBN-10: 0822346451

ISBN-13: 9780822346456

Edition: 2010

Authors: Pablo Piccato

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In the mid-to-late nineteenth century, as Mexico emerged out of the decades of civil war and foreign invasion, a modern notion of honour-of one's reputation and self-worth-became the keystone in the construction of public culture. Mexicans gave great symbolic, social, and material value to honour. Only honourable men could speak in the name of the public. Honour earned these men, and a few women, support and credit, and gave civilian politicians a claim to authority after an era dominated by military heroism. Tracing changing notions of honour in nineteenth-century Mexico, Pablo Piccato examines legislation, journalism, parliamentary debates, criminal defamation cases, personal stories,…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/11/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction. Honor and the Public Sphere in the Republican Era



Travails of Opinion



Setting the Rules of Freedom: The Trajectory of the Press Jury



Representing Public Opinion: Combat Journalists and the Business of Honor



Tumultuous Opinion



"The Word of My Conscience": Eloquence and the Foreign Debt



Breaking Lamps and Expanding the Public Sphere: Students and Populacho against the Deuda Inglesa



Taming Opinion



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-Verï¿½stegui Affair and the Apogee of Dueling in Mexico


Conclusions


Notes


Sources Cited


Index