Description |
1 online resource (volumes <1>) : illustrations |
Series |
Rhetoric and public affairs series |
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Rhetoric and public affairs series.
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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
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Crime -- United States -- History
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
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Debates and debating -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Capital punishment
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Crime
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Debates and debating
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects
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SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140131
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United States -- History -- 1783-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140186
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Subject |
United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2009014695 |
ISBN |
1609173457 |
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9781609173456 |
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9781628960723 |
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1628960728 |
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