Dangerous ideas a brief history of censorship in the West, from the ancients to fake news
A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and and how - regardless of political leanings - every individual can act as both the suppressors and the suppressed. Through compelling narrative, historian Eric Berkowitz uses stories of the past to reveal the...
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[2021]
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Table of 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.
