Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores : Common Law and Common Folk in Early America /

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The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crane, Elaine Forman
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Domestic relations.
Common law.
LAW > Reference.
LAW > Practical Guides.
LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
LAW > General Practice.
LAW > Essays.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Sociologie juridique > États-Unis > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Common law > États-Unis > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Domestic relations > United States > History > 17th century.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History > 17th century.
Sociological jurisprudence > United States > History > 17th century.
Common law > United States > History > 17th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • In Dutch with the neighbors : slander "in a well regulated burghery"
  • Bermuda triangle : witchcraft, Quakers, and sexual eclecticism
  • "Leave of[f] or else I would cry out murder" : the community response to family violence in early New England
  • Cold comfort : race and rape in Rhode Island
  • He would "shoot him upon the spott" : the eviction of Samuel Banister
  • A ghost story.

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