The influence of censorship on the intellectual and political life in the Habsburg Monarchy during the period under scrutiny can hardly be overstated. With censorship still employed in many regions of the world today, readers will discover various striking differences—as well as numerous astounding similarities—to current practices of censorship in this book.
A fascinating study of the growing threat of libel and invasion of privacy actions to the First Amendment.
Women's Rights in Citizen's Europe (The Manchester Papers, #5)
by Elizabeth M. Meehan
Individual Rights in International Perspective
by Barbara Miller
The Price of Racial Reconciliation (Politics of Race and Ethnicity) (Politics of Race & Ethnicity S)
by Professor Ronald Walters
Freedom on the Border (Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History)
by Catherine Fosl
Most scholarship on the civil rights movement has focused on the Deep South, even though border states like Kentucky also had segregation laws and a history of racialized violence. African American Kentuckians challenged racial segregation, too, but they adapted their approaches as needed, from familiar protest models in the state's larger cities to more unique strategies in isolated rural communities, where they constituted only a tiny fraction of the population. In ""Freedom on the Border"", 1...
Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were continually reinvented through a vibrant national discourse - Wenger calls it ""religious freedom talk"" - that cannot possibly be separated from the evolving politics of race and empire. More often...
Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society (Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security)
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. This book is an examination of the effect of contemporary wars (such as the 'War on Terror') on civil life at a global level. Contemporary literature on war is mainly devoted to recent changes in the the...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR From the Trenches of Democracy Volume 6 (Letters to the Editor: From the Trenches of Democracy, #6)
by Daniel B Jeffs
The New Town Hall: Why We Engage Personally with Politicians
by Gina M. Masullo
Tyranny of the Moderns
by Professor Martin Thom and Professor Nadia Urbinati
The History of Canada Series - The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau (History of Canada)
by Ron Graham
In November 1981, in what has been called the most important conference since the Fathers of Confederation got together in Quebec City in 1864, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau met behind closed doors in Ottawa with the ten premiers. It was the culmination of more than five decades of political wrangling, one last attempt to renew the constitution with the consent of the provinces. Given the threat of Quebec independence, the ambitions of Western Canada, and the provinces’ demands for more...
Understanding the Path to Citizenship (Sequence American Government)
by Kremena Spengler
