Free Speech: A global history from Socrates to Social Media
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History has useful lessons to offer in the ongoing fight for free speech, writes Joanna Williams. Free Speech A global history from Socrates to Social Media, Jacob Mchangama’s compelling global history of free speech, tells the story of man’s ongoing struggle for the most fundamental of all rights. But it also does far more than this: it tells of humanity’s progress through battles for freedom, equality and democracy. It covers scientific developments – the invention of the printing press and the internet – and moments of social and political upheaval from the Reformation and the Enlightenment to the French Revolution and the Civil Rights Movement. It reveals how the struggle for free speech has shaped the world as we know it.
Free Speech: A global history from Socrates to Social Media
Free Speech: A global history from Socrates…
Free Speech: A global history from Socrates to Social Media
History has useful lessons to offer in the ongoing fight for free speech, writes Joanna Williams. Free Speech A global history from Socrates to Social Media, Jacob Mchangama’s compelling global history of free speech, tells the story of man’s ongoing struggle for the most fundamental of all rights. But it also does far more than this: it tells of humanity’s progress through battles for freedom, equality and democracy. It covers scientific developments – the invention of the printing press and the internet – and moments of social and political upheaval from the Reformation and the Enlightenment to the French Revolution and the Civil Rights Movement. It reveals how the struggle for free speech has shaped the world as we know it.