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Banished: Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England
Banished Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England
Author: Nan Goodman
A community is defined not only by inclusion but also by exclusion. Seventeenth-century New England Puritans, themselves exiled from one society, ruthlessly invoked the law of banishment from another: over time, hundreds of people were forcibly excluded from this developing but sparsely settled colony. Nan Goodman suggests that the methods of ba...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812244274
ISBN-10: 0812244273
Publication Date: 7/6/2012
Pages: 224
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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