Bibliograph

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

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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

Responsibility statement

Eric Berkowitz

Sub title

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

Summary

The compulsion to silence others is as old as the urge to speak. Berkowitz reveals how drastically censorship has shaped our modern society. His book 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. From the first Chinese emperor's wholesale elimination of books, to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the volatile politics surrounding censorship of social media, Berkowitz demonstrates the fragility of power and how every individual can act as both the suppressor and the suppressed. -- adapted from jacket

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, control, and frock coats 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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