The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime And Polite Gentlemen In Massachusetts, 1690-1776

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.

• | By (Author): Kristin A. Olbertson
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 10, 2022
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 258 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 100909890X
• | ISBN-13: 9781009098908