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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
Every year anticensorship organizations circulate lists of the most frequently challenged books from the proceeding year, and on most of
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The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (2 ed.)
This article consists of a pair of essays by two contributors with different perspectives and interpretations of censorship. The articles
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
In the eighteenth century, the word censorship was used to denote all regulations on the circulation of books and ideas.
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A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
The control of Jewish books to make sure that they do not contain material considered by those exercising the control
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Robert E. Drechsel
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (2 ed.)
The Supreme Court has found censorship to be an especially intolerable restriction on freedom of expression. The term censorship might
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The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
[This entry contains two subentries, on censorship in English common law and in Islamic law.]
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Constraint imposed on speech, writing, or performance affected the British literary imagination from the early days of printing to the
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The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
Although the settlement of America coincided with the flourishing of both Jacobean and Restoration playwriting in England, the relatively small
Censorship and Repression of Peace Literature Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
Freedom of expression is a widely held ideal. It is considered a universal human right under the Charter of the
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M. R. D. Foot
The Oxford Companion to World War II
both of the press and of post, telephone, and telegraph, is automatic in police states. It was applied with rigour
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The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2 ed.)
Although censorship in Canada of books, plays, films, and television has been relatively benign, it has been based primarily on
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The Oxford Companion to Australian History
was first exercised by colonial governors. Using the English common law and legislative control of printing presses, they suppressed conduct,
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The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (2 ed.)
is a seemingly inevitable concomitant of modern war, and in the twentieth century its expansion has been one of the
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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
of the printed word and performing arts has been applied in varying measure and by diverse means throughout the modern
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The Oxford Companion to Military History
is strictly the review by an authority of any material before publication or dissemination, with the legal right to prevent,
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Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
Regardless of Australians' view of themselves as easy-going, Australia has maintained a strict regime of government control of media content
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World Encyclopedia
System whereby a government-appointed body or official claims the right to protect the public interest by influencing the release of
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
the practice of officially examining books, films, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts.
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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
Specific statutory provision for theatrical censorship is now rare in democratic countries, one of the last to abolish the practice being Great Britain in ...
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The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
in Ireland has a long and complex history. Little is known of the situation prior to the 17th century, though
