The dreadful word : speech crime and polite gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690-1776 / Kristin A. Olbertson, Alma College.
This book, the first comprehensive study of criminal speech in eighteenth-century New England, traces how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in Massachusetts helped to establish and legitimate a social and cultural regime of politeness. Analyzing provincial statutes...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Studies in legal history.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009106535 |
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