UID:
almafu_9958352412102883
Umfang:
1 online resource(216p.) :
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illustrations.
Ausgabe:
Electronic reproduction. , 2014. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812209259
Serie:
Early American Studies
Inhalt:
This fascinating history examines the circumstances of two elderly New Englanders who were prosecuted and sentenced to death for bestiality at the turn of the eighteenth century. Their astonishing cases become a springboard to examine the Enlightenment Era political and religious turmoil of the region.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: Crimes Against Nature --
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Chapter 1. The Sisyphean Battle Against Bestiality --
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Chapter 2. The Unlikely Prosecutions of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn --
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Chapter 3. Sexual Crisis in the Age of Revolution --
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Chapter 4. Fearful Rulers in Anxious Times --
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Chapter 5. Puritan Twilight in the New England Republics --
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Notes --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.9783/9780812209259
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209259
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