Obscenity Blasphemy Sedition: Censorship In Australia
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: pages 75-78 loose.
At the crossroads of free speech and state control, Obscenity Blasphemy Sedition: Censorship in Australia presents a rigorous and unflinching account of how Australian authorities wielded the law to silence, suppress, and punish dissenting voices across literature, religion, and political discourse. Peter Coleman chronicles the historical battles fought over what citizens could read, say, and believe, mapping the contours of a censorship apparatus that shaped Australian intellectual and cultural life in ways both overt and insidious. From courtroom dramas to banned publications, the narrative details the tension between a society striving for modernity and a legal establishment determined to enforce moral and political conformity. Coleman writes with the incisive clarity of a seasoned journalist and cultural commentator, arguing that the history of censorship is, at its core, a history of power — who holds it, who challenges it, and what is sacrificed in the struggle between the two. Published by The Jacaranda Press in Brisbane, this work stands as a landmark in Australian political and legal history, offering a sobering lens through which to examine how democracies can become their own greatest censors. For anyone who believes the freedoms of expression are self-evident, Coleman's meticulous research may well prompt a searching reconsideration.
Author: Peter Coleman
Format: Hardback
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: pages 75-78 loose.
At the crossroads of free speech and state control, Obscenity Blasphemy Sedition: Censorship in Australia presents a rigorous and unflinching account of how Australian authorities wielded the law to silence, suppress, and punish dissenting voices across literature, religion, and political discourse. Peter Coleman chronicles the historical battles fought over what citizens could read, say, and believe, mapping the contours of a censorship apparatus that shaped Australian intellectual and cultural life in ways both overt and insidious. From courtroom dramas to banned publications, the narrative details the tension between a society striving for modernity and a legal establishment determined to enforce moral and political conformity. Coleman writes with the incisive clarity of a seasoned journalist and cultural commentator, arguing that the history of censorship is, at its core, a history of power — who holds it, who challenges it, and what is sacrificed in the struggle between the two. Published by The Jacaranda Press in Brisbane, this work stands as a landmark in Australian political and legal history, offering a sobering lens through which to examine how democracies can become their own greatest censors. For anyone who believes the freedoms of expression are self-evident, Coleman's meticulous research may well prompt a searching reconsideration.