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An indispensable liberty : the fight for free speech in nineteenth-century America /
"This collection of eleven essays examines nineteenth-century legal and extralegal attempts to restrict freedom of speech and the press as well as the efforts of others to push back against those restrictions"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2016.
©2016 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. National Conflict and Freedom of Expression; 1. A Press Ablaze: Violent Suppression of Abolitionist Speech, Press, Petition, and Assembly; 2. "Palpable Injury": Abraham Lincoln and Press Suppression in the Civil War North; 3. Freedom of the Press in a Slave Society at War: The Confederate Congress and Others Really Did Make No Law; 4. Fight, Fold, Flip, or Flee: The Confederate Press and Enemy Occupation, 1861-65.
- 5. Disturbing the Public Peace: Radical and Conservative Editors in the Reconstruction SouthPart 2. The Fight for Freedom of Expression; 6. The Rocky Road to Truth as a Defense: Libel Construction in the Nineteenth Century; 7. Keeping the Light under the Bushel: Laws, Mores, and Reading; 8. No Rights for the Working Man: Laboring before the First Amendment Had Force; 9. Freedom of Expression for Women: The Fight for Suffrage and Personal Liberty; 10. The National Defense Association: Liberal Protector of Free Speech.
- 11. Davis v. Massachusetts: Expressive Conduct and Regulated Liberty in the Nineteenth CenturyContributors; Index; Back Cover.