Description |
1 online resource (volumes <1>) : illustrations. |
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Series |
Rhetoric and public affairs series
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Rhetoric and public affairs series.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-302) and index. |
Summary |
"This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the first volume of Executing Democracy enters the death-penalty discussion during the debates of 1835 and 1843, when pro-death penalty Calvinist minister George Barrell Cheever faced off against abolitionist magazine editor John O'Sullivan. In contrast to the macro-historical overview presented in volume 1, volume 2 provides micro-historical case studies, using these debates as springboards into the discussion of the death penalty in America at large. Incorporating a wide range of sources, including political poems, newspaper editorials, and warring manifestos, this second volume highlights a variety of perspectives, thus demonstrating the centrality of public debates about crime, violence, and punishment to the history of American democracy. Hartnett's insightful assessment bears witness to a complex national discussion about the political, metaphysical, and cultural significance of the death penalty."--Publisher's website. |
Contents |
Illustrations; Preface: "What Follies and Monstrous Barbarities"; Acknowledgments; Chapter One. The Second Great Awakening and the "Grotesque Sublime" of Antebellum America; Chapter Two. O'Sullivan and Cheever's Death Penalty Debate, 1835-1842, and "The Highest Interests of Humanity" ; Chapter Three. O'Sullivan and Cheever's Death Penalty Debate of 1843 and "The Great Merciless Machine of Modernity"; Conclusion. Capital Punishment and the Dilemmas of Antebellum Modernity; Appendix. The Liberator Attacks the Death Penalty, 1842-1843; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Capital punishment -- United States -- History.
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Capital punishment. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Crime -- United States -- History.
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Crime. |
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects. |
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Debates and debating -- United States -- History.
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Debates and debating. |
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United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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United States -- History -- 1783-1865.
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Chronological Term |
1783-1865 |
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1600-1865 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Title |
Capital punishment & the making of America, 1683-1807.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9780870138690 0870138693 (DLC) 2009014695 |
ISBN |
1609173457 (electronic book) |
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9781609173456 (electronic book) |
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9781628960723 (electronic book) |
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1628960728 (electronic book) |
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9781611860474 |
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1611860474 |
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9780870138690 (alkaline paper) |
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0870138693 (alkaline paper) |
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