Early French and German defenses of freedom of the press : Elie Luzac's essay on Freedom of expression, 1749 and Carl Friedrich Bahrdt's On freedom of the press and its limits, 1787 in English translation / edited by John Christian Laursen and Johan van der Zande.

This volume contains English translations of two important early French and German defences of freedom of the press. Almost unknown in the English-speaking world, these texts demonstrate that freedom of the press was an important issue in other parts of Europe in the early modern period, giving rise...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors:	Laursen, John Christian, Zande, Johan van der, Luzac, Elie, 1721-1796, Bahrdt, Karl Friedrich, 1741-1792
Format:	eBook
Language:	English French Dutch German
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
Series:	Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 113.
Subjects:	Freedom of the press > France. Freedom of the press > Germany. Freedom of the press. France. Germany.