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The first freedom : a history of free speech / Robert Hargreaves.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: Stroud : Sutton, 2002.Description: ix, 338 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0750929235
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.44309 21
LOC classification:
  • JC 591 H279f 2002
Online resources: Summary: This volume examines the history of free speech, from the execution of Socrates to the writings of Milton, Voltaire and Mill and the struggles of Paine, Wilkes and Cobbett. From its infancy in ancient Athens, Hargreaves offers pen-portraits of the champions of free speech, recounting the story through the people who kept the idea of free speech alive through periods of progress, cataclysmic defeats and centuries of stagnation. His study covers ancient Greece and Rome, Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe and the United States.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) JC 591 H279f 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000101596

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume examines the history of free speech, from the execution of Socrates to the writings of Milton, Voltaire and Mill and the struggles of Paine, Wilkes and Cobbett. From its infancy in ancient Athens, Hargreaves offers pen-portraits of the champions of free speech, recounting the story through the people who kept the idea of free speech alive through periods of progress, cataclysmic defeats and centuries of stagnation. His study covers ancient Greece and Rome, Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe and the United States.

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