04326cam a2200481 i 4500 23991150 DLC 20260601125214.0 ta 250102s2025 mau b 001 0 eng c 2024059243 9780674987319 (hardcover) 0674987314 (hardcover) 9780674300422 adobe pdf 9780674300439 epub MH/DLC eng rda DLC DLC DLC-MRC DLC DLC-MRC DLC DLC-MRC eng pcc JC 591 D111w 2025 323.44/309 Dabhoiwala, Fara (Faramerz Noshir), 1969- 47932 What is free speech? : the history of a dangerous idea / Fara Dabhoiwala. First Harvard University Press edition Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025. vii, 472 pages ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt unmediated n rdamedia http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/mediaTypes/n volume nc rdacarrier http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/carriers/nc 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. "Every premodern society, from Sumeria to China to seventeenth–century Europe, knew that bad words could destroy lives, undermine social order, and create political unrest. Given the obvious dangers of outspokenness, regulating speech and print was universally accepted as a necessary and proper activity of government. Only in the early 1700s did this old way begin to break down. In a brief span of time, the freedom to use words as one pleased was reimagined as an ideal to be held and defended in common. Fara Dabhoiwala explores the surprising paths free speech has taken across the globe since its invention three hundred years ago. Though free speech has become a central democratic principle, its origins and evolution have less to do with the high-minded pursuit of liberty and truth than with the self-interest of the wealthy, the greedy, and the powerful. Free speech, as we know it, is a product of the pursuit of profit, of technological disruption, of racial and imperial hypocrisy, and of the contradictions involved in maintaining openness while suppressing falsehood. For centuries, its shape has everywhere been influenced by international, not just national, events; nowhere has it ever been equally available to women, the colonized, or those stigmatized as racially inferior. Rejecting platitudes about the First Amendment and its international equivalents, and leaving no ideological position undisturbed, What Is Free Speech? is the unsettling history of an ideal as cherished as it is misunderstood."-- Provided by publisher Freedom of speech History Libertad de expresión 5373 Freedom of speech English-speaking countries History Libertad de expresión Historia Países de habla inglesa 48784 http://id.loc.gov/resources/instances/23991150 http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/instanceOf http://id.loc.gov/resources/works/23991150 Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Dabhoiwala, Faramerz What is free speech? First Harvard University Press edition Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025 (DLC) 2024059244 9780674300439 9780674300422 9780674987319 DLC bibframe2marc v3.0-dev 20251120 DLC https://github.com/lcnetdev/bibframe2marc/tree/v3.0-dev 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 126794 126794 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2026-04-14 0 JC 591 D111w 2025 00000199030 2026-04-14 12:49:00 1 2026-04-14 BK