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Author Hartnett, Stephen J.

Title Executing democracy / Stephen John Hartnett
Published East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, ©2010-

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Description 1 online resource (volumes <1>) : illustrations
Series Rhetoric and public affairs series
Rhetoric and public affairs series.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-302) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Capital punishment -- United States -- History
Crime -- United States -- History
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
Debates and debating -- United States -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Capital punishment
Crime
Debates and debating
Rhetoric -- Political aspects
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140131
United States -- History -- 1783-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140186
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009014695
ISBN 1609173457
9781609173456
9781628960723
1628960728
Other Titles Capital punishment & the making of America, 1683-1807
Capital punishment & the making of America, 1683-1807
Capital punishment & the making of America, 1683-1807
Capital punishment & the making of America, 1683-1807
Capital punishment & the making of America, 1683-1807