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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hartnett, Stephen J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, ©2010-
Colección:Rhetoric and public affairs series.
Temas:
1600-1865
Capital punishment > United States > History.
Crime > United States > History.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States > History.
Debates and debating > United States > History.
Peine de mort > États-Unis > Histoire.
Discours politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Débats et controverses > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Capital punishment
Crime
Debates and debating
Rhetoric > Political aspects
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States > History > 1783-1865.
États-Unis > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
États-Unis > Histoire > 1783-1865.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.

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