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Governing the Tongue : the Politics of Speech in Early New England.
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."
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | History e-book project.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |