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Kamensky, Jane (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University)
Governing The Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England
Kamensky, Jane (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University)
Governing The Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England
Kamensky, Jane (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University)
Explaining why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England, the author re-examines such famous Puritan events as the Salem witch trials and the banishment of Anne Hutchinson to expose the ever-present fear of what the puritans called "sins of the tongue."
304 pages, bibliography
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 18, 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195130904 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 155 × 16 mm · 408 g |
| Language | English |