Bibliograph

Dangerous ideas, a brief history of censorship in the West, from the ancients to fake news, Eric Berkowitz

Type

Label

Dangerous ideas, a brief history of censorship in the West, from the ancients to fake news, Eric Berkowitz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-291) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dangerous ideas

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1247377275

Responsibility statement

Eric Berkowitz

Sub title

a brief history of censorship in the West, from the ancients to fake news

Summary

"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

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

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