Taming Lust Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic

Informationen zum Autor Doron S. Ben-Atar is Professor of History at Fordham University and author of Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power. Richard D. Brown is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut and coauthor of The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America. Klappentext This fascinating history examines the circumstances of two elderly New Englanders who were prosecuted and executed 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Crimes Against Nature Chapter 1. The Sisyphean Battle Against Bestiality Chapter 2. The Unlikely Prosecutions of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn Chapter 3. Sexual Crisis in the Age of Revolution Chapter 4. Fearful Rulers in Anxious Times Chapter 5. Puritan Twilight in the New England Republics Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Doron S. Ben-Atar, Richard D. Brown, Doron S./ Brown Ben-Atar
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 04.04.2014
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780812245813
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4581-3
• Pages: 224
• Series: Early American Studies