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The Dreadful Word
- Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690-1776
- Binding:
- Hardback
- Pages:
- 258
- Published:
- March 9, 2022
- Edition:
- Dimensions:
- 278x158x29 mm.
- Weight:
- 654 g.
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Expected delivery: December 5, 2024
Description of The Dreadful Word
The Dreadful Word describes how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in eighteenth-century Massachusetts helped to establish and legitimate a cultural regime of politeness. This work is the first of its kind and will be of interest to history and law scholars.
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