Dangerous Ideas
A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News
Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]
Format: Book
Description: 308 pages ; 24 cm
"A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintain class and gender disparities"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Helping God along : speech suppression in the ancient world -- The fire cure : censorship from late antiquity to Gutenberg -- The printquakes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Revolution, control, and frock coats in the eighteenth century -- Class warfare in the nineteenth century -- Trouble in mind : the early twentieth century -- Screaming at the crowd in the contemporary era.
Subjects:
Censorship -- Western countries -- History.
Freedom of speech -- Western countries -- History.
Censorship -- Western countries -- History.
Freedom of speech -- Western countries -- History.
ISBN:
9780807036242
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SOCIAL SCI Communicate Ber | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.