Rites of execution: capital punishment and the transformation of American culture, 1776-1865
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Main Author: Masur, Louis P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1989 ((1991 [printing])
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-197) and index
Introduction -- Ritual and reform in antebellum America -- The design of public executions in the early American republic -- The opposition to capital punishment in post-Revolutionary America -- The dream of reformation and the limits of reform -- The origins of private executions in America -- Anti-gallows activists and the commitment to moral reform -- The conflict over capital punishment in antebellum America -- Epilogue
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 208 pages)
ISBN:0195048997
0195066634
142373694X
9780195048995
9781423736943

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