Press and Speech Freedoms in the World, from Antiquity until 1998: A Chronology / Edition 1

by Louis E. Ingelhart

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313308512
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/17/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)
Lexile:	1610L (what's this?)

About the Author

LOUIS EDWARD INGELHART is Professor Emeritus of Jourbanalism at Ball State University and has been a champion of press freedom for at least fifty years. His most recent book is Press and Speech Freedoms in America, 1619-1995: A Chronology (Greenwood, 1997).

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

Editorial Reviews

A companion volume to Press and Speech Freedoms in America, 1619- 1995 (Greenwood Press, 1997). Presents the slow journey toward free speech and the occasional backward steps as reflected in institutional actions, judicial sentences, and quotations from leading proponents and opponents of free speech. Organized year-by-year, and within that framework, country by country. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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