Executing democracy /
"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'Sulliva...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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East Lansing, Mich. :
Michigan State University Press,
©2010-
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Colección: | Rhetoric and public affairs series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.