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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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Walton, G. Charles 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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