How Long to Read Governing The Tongue : The Politics of Speech in Early New England

How Long Does it Take to Read Governing The Tongue : The Politics of Speech in Early New England?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Governing The Tongue : The Politics of Speech in Early New England by Jane Kamensky Assistant Professor of History Brandeis University

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Colonial New Englanders would have found our modern notions of free speech very strange indeed. Children today shrug off harsh words by chanting "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me," but in the seventeenth century people felt differently. "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. Author Jane Kamensky re-examines such famous Puritan events as the Salem witch trials and the banishment of Anne Hutchinson to expose the ever-present fear of what...

How long is Governing The Tongue : The Politics of Speech in Early New England?

Governing The Tongue : The Politics of Speech in Early New England by Jane Kamensky Assistant Professor of History Brandeis University is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Governing The Tongue : The Politics of Speech in Early New England aloud.

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Governing The Tongue : The Politics of Speech in Early New England is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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