Executing democracy [electronic resource] / Stephen John Hartnett.

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Hartnett, Stephen J

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TextSeries: Rhetoric and public affairs series | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, c2010- 2012) 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource :) illISBN:

9781609173456

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364.660973 22

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HV8699.U5 H374 2010

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v. 1. Capital punishment & the making of America, 1683-1807 -- v. 2. Capital punishment & the making of America, 1835-1843 --

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Capital punishment & the making of America, 1683-1807 -- v. 2. Capital punishment & the making of America, 1835-1843 --

"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.

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