Press And Speech Freedoms In The World, From Antiquity Until 1998: A Chronology [Hardcover]

Although Americans tend to take the concept and protection of free expression for granted, free press and free speech are at best only tentatively established in some nations of the world. Covering prehistoric times to mid-1998, this book provides a year-by-year report of the efforts to free the press throughout the world. Since the American concept of free speech came from England, the early chapters place a heavy emphasis on events in England, while later chapters include other nations throughout the world. Ingelhart provides a thorough overview of free press and free speech principles and the continuing effort to extend those freedoms almost everywhere.LOUIS EDWARD INGELHART is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Ball State University and has been a champion of press freedom for at least fifty years. His most recent book isPress and Speech Freedoms in America, 1619-1995: A Chronology(Greenwood, 1997).

Preface
From Antiquity to Printing
England Struggles into the Communications Age
Irreverence and Newspapers
Schismatism in England
Freedom of Expression Beckons in England
Libel in England
Repression and Tyrants
Parliament and the King's Ministers
Suppression, Vice, Stamp Taxes, Blasphemy
The Nineteenth-Century Confusions
Wartime Censorship
New Tyrannies
Freedom of Expression Struggles On
A Century Ends--A Century Begins
But Tyranny Rules
The Future of the World's Freedom of Expression
Selected Bibliography
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects