A Distant Heritage The Growth of Free Speech in by Larry Eldridge PAPERBACK

A Distant Heritage The Growth of Free Speech in Early America\nby Larry Eldridge\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Larry Eldridge\nTitle: A Distant Heritage The Growth of Free Speech in Early America\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: MI - New York University\nPublication year: 1995\nEdition: Revised edition\nISBN-13: 9780814721957\nISBN-10: 0814721958\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nUsing the court records of every American colony that existed before 1700 and an analysis of over 1,200 seditious speech cases sifted from those records, this book shows how colonists experienced a dramatic expansion during the seventeenth century of their freedom to criticize government and its officials.\n\nUsing the court records of every American colony th.