Rites of execution : capital punishment and the transformation of American culture, 1776-1865 /
| Основен автор: | Masur, Louis P. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1989
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=143744 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Rites of execution. |
Съдържание:
- 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.