INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1
Helping God Along: Speech Suppression in the Ancient World

CHAPTER 2
The Fire Cure: Censorship from Late Antiquity to Gutenberg

CHAPTER 3
The Printquakes of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

CHAPTER 4
Revolution and Control in the Eighteenth Century

CHAPTER 5
Class Warfare in the Nineteenth Century

CHAPTER 6
Trouble in Mind: The Early Twentieth Century

CHAPTER 7
Screaming at the Crowd in the Contemporary Era

AFTERWORD

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1
Helping God Along: Speech Suppression in the Ancient World

CHAPTER 2
The Fire Cure: Censorship from Late Antiquity to Gutenberg

CHAPTER 3
The Printquakes of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

CHAPTER 4
Revolution and Control in the Eighteenth Century

CHAPTER 5
Class Warfare in the Nineteenth Century

CHAPTER 6
Trouble in Mind: The Early Twentieth Century

CHAPTER 7
Screaming at the Crowd in the Contemporary Era

AFTERWORD

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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