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The thirteenth turn : a history of the noose /
"The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one of the most powerful in history, and particularly in America, whose relationship to the noose is all too deep and complicate...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
[2014]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- [Part 1] Origins
- 1. The thirteenth turn: origins of the noose
- 2. Rope, ritual, roots: the Iron Age hanging of Tollund Man
- 3. An ignoble death: hanging from the Roman Empire to medieval Europe
- [Part 2] Revolutions
- 4. At the crossroads: the spectacle of hanging in colonial New York
- 5. Hanging Hannah Occuish in post-revolution America
- 6. Meteors of war: death by hanging and the end of slavery
- 7. The noose in the museum: hanging and Native America
- [Part 3] Lynching
- 8. Alone from a tree: lynching in the post-reconstruction South
- 9. A story of hands: an early twentieth-century lynching in the American Midwest
- 10. Strange fruit: the legacy of Marion
- [Part 4] A good death
- 11. When the gallows come down
- 12. The new burning cross
- 13. The noose in our world.