Dangerous ideas : a brief history of censorship in the West, from the ancients to fake news
by Berkowitz, Eric (Author)
Summary
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... Full description
- 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.