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Dangerous ideas : a brief history of censorship in the West, from the ancients to fake news
Author
Title
Dangerous ideas : a brief history of censorship in the West, from the ancients to fake news / Eric Berkowitz.
ISBN
9780807036242
0807036242
9780807036259
Publication
Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
308 pages ; illustration ; 24 cm.
Summary
"An examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped western culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintain class and gender disparities"-- Provided by the publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Berkowitz, Eric. Dangerous ideas Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 10, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-291) and index.
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 and control 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
Genre/Form
History.
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