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1 online resource (xiv, 342 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Putting culture into the picture : toward a comparative analysis of state killing / Christian Boulanger and Austin Sarat -- pt. I Civilization and punishment : self and other in Europe and Americas-- 2. Nineteenth-century executions as performances of law, death, and civilization / Jürgen Martschukat -- 3. Seed of abolition : experience and culture in the desire to end capital punishment in Mexico, 1841-1857 / Patrick Timmons -- 4. Cultural lives of capital punishment in the United States / Judith Randle -- 5. European identity and the mission against the death penalty in the United States / Evi Girling -- 6. Crime and punishment, self versus other : the cultural life of capital punishment in European and American film / Louise Tyler -- 7. Capital punishment in Poland : an aspect of the "cultural life" of the death penalty discourse / Agata Fijalkowski. |
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pt. II State killing and state violence in central and south Asia and the Middle East -- 8. Capital punishment in Kyrgyzstan : between the past, "other" state killings and social demands / Botagoz Kassymbekova -- 9. Death and the nation : state killing in India / Julia Eckert -- 10. Imagining the death penalty in Israel : punishment, violence, vengeance, and revenge / Shai J. Lavi -- 11. Palestinian culture of death : Shariah and Siyasah ; justice, political power, and capital punishment in the Palestinian National Authority / Judith Mendelsohn Rood -- 12. Death penalty in Japan : secrecy, silence, and salience / David T. Johnson -- 13. What is wrong with capital punishment? : official and unofficial attitudes toward capital punishment in modern and contemporary China / Virgil K.Y. Ho -- 14. Capital punishment and the culture of developmentalism in Singapore / Alfred Oehlers and Nicole Tarulevicz -- 15. Ending state killing in South Korea : challenging the Asian capital punishment status quo / Sangmin Bae. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Capital punishment. |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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Electronic books.
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Sarat, Austin.
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Boulanger, Christian.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cultural lives of capital punishment. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005 0804752338 0804752346 (DLC) 2005003157 (OCoLC)57652253 |
| ISBN |
1423749537 (electronic book) |
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9781423749530 (electronic book) |
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9780804752336 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804752338 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804752343 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0804752346 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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