Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.