Doron S Ben Atar: 2 books
Taming Lust
Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced...
Trade Secrets
Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
During the first decades of America’s existence as a nation, private citizens, voluntary associations, and government officials encouraged the smuggling of European inventions and artisans to the New World. At the same time, the young republic was developing policies that set new standards for protecting...