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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 308 pages ; illustration ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780807036242
  • 0807036242
Subject(s):
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 western culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintain class and gender disparities"-- Provided by the publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 363.31 B513 Available 33111010514400
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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

Through compelling narrative, historian Eric Berkowitz reveals how drastically censorship has shaped our modern society. More than just a history of censorship, Dangerous Ideas illuminates the power of restricting speech; how it has defined states, ideas, and culture; and (despite how each of us would like to believe otherwise) how it is something we all participate in.

This engaging cultural history of censorship and thought suppression throughout the ages takes readers from the first Chinese emperor's wholesale elimination of books, to Henry VIII's decree of death for anyone who "imagined" his demise, and on to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the volatile politics surrounding censorship of social media.

Highlighting the base impulses driving many famous acts of suppression, Berkowitz demonstrates the fragility of power and how every individual can act as both the suppressor and the suppressed.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-291) 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 western culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintain class and gender disparities"-- Provided by the publisher.

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