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Barcode30053003866954
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No323.44 DABH
Title What is free speech? : the history of a dangerous idea / Fara Dabhoiwala.
Author Dabhoiwala, Faramerz, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult 300-399
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003866954323.44 DABH7/23/2025 Available

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Personal Name Dabhoiwala, Faramerz, author.
Title Statement What is free speech? : the history of a dangerous idea / Fara Dabhoiwala.
Edition Statement First Harvard University Press edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
Physical Description vii, 472 pages ; 25 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-443) and index.
Formatted Contents Note The Power of Speech -- Tolerating Words -- Inventing Free Speech -- The Shapes of Freedom -- Enlightened Experiments -- The Accidental Exceptionalism of the First Amendment -- Legitimate and Illegitimate Expressions -- Imperial Entanglements -- Colonial and Postcolonial Unfreedoms -- The Marketplace of Ideas -- Afterword: From the Past to the Future.
Summary, Etc. "Faramerz Dabhoiwala argues that free speech, though a central democratic value, owes its origin and evolution less to high-minded ideals than to venal interests. Shaped by greed, technological change, and the insoluble challenges of slander and falsehood, free speech is inherently contradictory-both a basis of liberty and a weapon of the powerful."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Freedom of speech History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Freedom of speech History. English-speaking countries

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