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History is an important, dangerous, and fragile subject. Historical thought can be censored in widely diverging political and historiographical contexts, as his

A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintai

"The abuse of history is common and quite possibly once more on the rise. Although this is well documented, there is no general theory that enables historians t

"Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books Wi

Rather than envision themselves as agents of state-sponsored repression, the royal book censors of eighteenth-century France wished, through their reports and d