Banished : common law and the rhetoric of social exclusion in early New England /

"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 settle...

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Main Author: Goodman, Nan, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
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