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...

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1. Verfasser: Walton, G. Charles (George Charles), 1966-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-315) and index.
ISBN:9780199710010
0199710015
0190451289
9780190451288
1281987107
9781281987105
9786611987107
661198710X

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