TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dabhoiwala,Fara
TI  - What is free speech?: the history of a dangerous idea 
SN  - 9780674987319
AV  - JC591 D111w 2025
U1  - 323.44/309 23/eng/20250226
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Freedom of speech
KW  - History
KW  - English-speaking countries
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -