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

By: Publication details: Boston : Beacon Press, 2021.Description: 308 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780807055397 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.31 23
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.
Summary: An 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Media Literacy
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
300 - 399 Hanover Public Library Shelves Non-fiction 363.31 BERK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001319137

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

An 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.

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