LOUIS EDWARD INGELHART is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Ball State University and has been a champion of press freedom for at least fifty years. His most recent book is Press and Speech Freedoms in America, 1619-1995: A Chronology (Greenwood, 1997).

• Preface From Antiquity to Printing England Struggles into the Communications Age Irreverence and Newspapers Schismatism in England Freedom of Expression Beckons in England Libel in England Repression and Tyrants Parliament and the King's Ministers Suppression, Vice, Stamp Taxes, Blasphemy The Nineteenth-Century Confusions Wartime Censorship New Tyrannies Freedom of Expression Struggles On A Century Ends--A Century Begins But Tyranny Rules The Future of the World's Freedom of Expression Selected Bibliography Index of Persons Index of Subjects

LOUIS EDWARD INGELHART is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Ball State University and has been a champion of press freedom for at least fifty years. His most recent book is Press and Speech Freedoms in America, 1619-1995: A Chronology (Greenwood, 1997).

• Preface From Antiquity to Printing England Struggles into the Communications Age Irreverence and Newspapers Schismatism in England Freedom of Expression Beckons in England Libel in England Repression and Tyrants Parliament and the King's Ministers Suppression, Vice, Stamp Taxes, Blasphemy The Nineteenth-Century Confusions Wartime Censorship New Tyrannies Freedom of Expression Struggles On A Century Ends--A Century Begins But Tyranny Rules The Future of the World's Freedom of Expression Selected Bibliography Index of Persons Index of Subjects

LOUIS EDWARD INGELHART is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Ball State University and has been a champion of press freedom for at least fifty years. His most recent book is Press and Speech Freedoms in America, 1619-1995: A Chronology (Greenwood, 1997).

• Preface From Antiquity to Printing England Struggles into the Communications Age Irreverence and Newspapers Schismatism in England Freedom of Expression Beckons in England Libel in England Repression and Tyrants Parliament and the King's Ministers Suppression, Vice, Stamp Taxes, Blasphemy The Nineteenth-Century Confusions Wartime Censorship New Tyrannies Freedom of Expression Struggles On A Century Ends--A Century Begins But Tyranny Rules The Future of the World's Freedom of Expression Selected Bibliography Index of Persons Index of Subjects