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Policing public opinion in the French Revolution : the culture of calumny and the problem of free speech /
In the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and much like the early American Republic, France appeared to be on a path towards freedom, tolerance, and pluralism. Four yea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and much like the early American Republic, France appeared to be on a path towards freedom, tolerance, and pluralism. Four years later, however, the country slid into a period of political terror. Thousands were indicted for speech crimes, many of whom were guillotined. The revolutionary government also set out to morally regenerate society, monitoring and engineering public opinion in ways scholars have characterized as t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199710015 9780199710010 1281987107 9781281987105 |