Censorship defined:
Originally, [censorship] refers to the Roman state office of the censor [Brill's New Pauly] whose duties included not only administering the population census and assigning property classes, but also jurisdiction "over breaches of private and public morality." [BNP]
Generally, the office, function, or period of a censor.
e.g., of the press: 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 540 The law which subjected the press to a censorship. [OED]
Etymologically, from Lat. censura (‘examination’, Middle Latin ‘supervision, reprimand’) -- describes the control (preventative or pre-censorship) and/or the suppression (repressive or post-censorship) of written records [Brill's New Pauly]
Censorship, a World Encyclopedia Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, c2001 4 volumes REQUEST FROM COLBY STORAGE |
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Censorship, by Mark Paxton Greenwood Press, 2008 EBook |
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Banned in the U.S.A.:a reference guide to book censorship in schools and public libraries Greenwood Press, 2002 EBook |
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Banned in the media: a reference guide to censorship in the press, motion pictures, broadcasting, and the Internet / Herbert N. Foerstel Greenwood Press, 1998 EBook |
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