Taming Lust - Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic

Informationen zum Autor By Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

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• Authors: Doron S. Ben-Atar, Doron S. Brown Ben-Atar, Doron S./ Brown Ben-Atar, Richard D. Brown
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9780812223750
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2375-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous