The Dreadful Word. Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690-1776, New ed, Hardback

The Dreadful Word describes how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in eighteenth-century Massachusetts helped to establish and legitimate a cultural regime of politeness. This work is the first of its kind and will be of interest to history and law scholars.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Kristin A. Olbertson
• Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises
• Number of pages: 258
• Collection: Studies in Legal History
• Publication date: 2022
• Dimensions: 158 x 278 x 29
• Cover type: Hardback