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Author Ben-Atar, Doron S., author.

Title Taming lust : crimes against nature in the early republic / Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown
Published Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations, tables
Series Early American studies
Early American studies.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Analysis American History
American Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Bestiality -- United States -- Case studies
Bestiality -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Bestiality
Civilization
Criminal justice, Administration of
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 18th century
Subject United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Richard D
LC no. 2013033187
ISBN 9780812209259
0812209257