Press and Speech Freedoms in the World, from Antiquity until 1998

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Press and Speech Freedoms in the World, from Antiquity until 1998 A Chronology

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Louis Edward Ingelhart

Book Code: GR0851

ISBN: 0-313-30851-9

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30851-2

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320 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 9/30/1998

List Price: $101.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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This book is a most valuable as a handy, one-volume collection of anecdotes and one-line descriptions of many of the struggles of press and speech freedoms humankind has witnessed and endured since antiquity. For the teacher of journalism history or communication law course, the book provides impressive examples and information to enliven and enrich lectures on press freedom topics. For the researcher, the volume can serve as a starting point by providing possible research topics and clues to where to begin the search for further information. For the reader intersted in getting a sense of the "big picture" of free speech and press struggles throughout time, this volume fits the bill nicely.
—American Journalism (Editor's Choice) Fall 2000

Description: Although Americans tend to take the concept and protection of free expression for granted, free press and free speech are at best only tentatively established in some nations of the world. Covering prehistoric times to mid-1998, this book provides a year-by-year report of the efforts to free the press throughout the world. Since the American concept of free speech came from England, the early chapters place a heavy emphasis on events in England, while later chapters include other nations throughout the world. Ingelhart provides a thorough overview of free press and free speech principles and the continuing effort to extend those freedoms almost everywhere.

Table of Contents:

Preface
From Antiquity to Printing
England Struggles into the Communications Age
Irreverence and Newspapers
Schismatism in England
Freedom of Expression Beckons in England
Libel in England
Repression and Tyrants
Parliament and the King's Ministers
Suppression, Vice, Stamp Taxes, Blasphemy
The Nineteenth-Century Confusions
Wartime Censorship
New Tyrannies
Freedom of Expression Struggles On
A Century Ends--A Century Begins
But Tyranny Rules
The Future of the World's Freedom of Expression
Selected Bibliography
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects

LC Card Number: 98-21823

LCC Class: Z657

Dewey Class: 363


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