Governing the Tongue
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Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England
By Jane KamenskyThus when Allen Ball and his wife refused Elizabeth Godman's request to borrow some buttermilk, Godman answered ominously, "you will save it for your piggs, but it will doe them no good." Just as Godman said, Ball reported, ...
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Governing The Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England
By Jane Kamensky Assistant Professor of History Brandeis University... Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacobs, Telling the Truth about History (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994), 195-96, 212-16, 267-68; and Lynn Hunt, ed., The New Cultural History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), 6-7, 14, 17. 21.
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Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England
By Jane KamenskyBy placing speech at the heart of New England's early history, Kamensky develops new ideas about the relationship between language and power both in that place and time and, by extension, in our world today.
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Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England
By Jane Kamensky"A soft tongue breaketh the bone," they often said. Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England.
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Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England
By Jane KamenskyGoverning the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England.