Author: Roger Pattrell BristolPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Maryland Imprints, 1801-1810
Author: Roger Pattrell BristolPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Guide to the Study of United States Imprints
Author: George Thomas TansellePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674367616
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820
Author: Roger Eliot StoddardPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027105221X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
"A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821"--Provided by publisher.
Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores
Author: Elaine Forman CranePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801462746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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 Americans clashed with or conformed to the social norms established by the law. As trials throughout the country reveal, alleged malefactors such as witches, wife beaters, and whores, as well as debtors, rapists, and fornicators, were as much a part of the social landscape as farmers, merchants, and ministers. Ordinary people "made" law by establishing and enforcing informal rules of conduct. Codified by a handshake or over a mug of ale, such agreements became custom and custom became "law." Furthermore, by submitting to formal laws initiated from above, common folk legitimized a government that depended on popular consent to rule with authority. In this book we meet Marretie Joris, a New Amsterdam entrepreneur who sues Gabriel de Haes for calling her a whore; peer cautiously at Christian Stevenson, a Bermudian witch as bad "as any in the world;" and learn that Hannah Dyre feared to be alone with her husband—and subsequently died after a beating. We travel with Comfort Taylor as she crosses Narragansett Bay with Cuff, an enslaved ferry captain, whom she accuses of attempted rape, and watch as Samuel Banister pulls the trigger of a gun that kills the sheriff's deputy who tried to evict Banister from his home. And finally, we consider the promiscuous Marylanders Thomas Harris and Ann Goldsborough, who parented four illegitimate children, ran afoul of inheritance laws, and resolved matters only with the assistance of a ghost. Through the six trials she skillfully reconstructs here, Crane offers a surprising new look at how early American society defined and punished aberrant behavior, even as it defined itself through its legal system.
Maryland Historical Magazine
Author: William Hand BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the Society.
Message ... communicating a letter from the marshal of the state of Maryland, and a return of the census of that state ...
Author: United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
Author: Bibliographical Society of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Literature and Theater of the States and Regions of the U.S.A.
Author: Clarence GohdesPublisher: Durham, N.C : Duke University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society
Author: Printing, Book Collecting, and Illustrated Books; a Bibliography of Bibliographies
Author: Theodore BestermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description