Executing Democracy
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-87013-869-0 (ISBN)
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Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807 is the first volume of a rhetorical history of public debates about crime, violence, and capital punishment in America. This examination begins in 1683, when William Penn first struggled to govern the rowdy indentured servants of Philadelphia, and continues up until 1807, when the Federalists sought to impose law-and-order upon the New Republic.
This volume offers a lively historical overview of how crime, violence, and capital punishment influenced the settling of the New World, the American Revolution, and the frantic post-war political scrambling to establish norms that would govern the new republic.
By presenting a macro-historical overview, and by filling the arguments with voices from different political camps and communicative genres, Hartnett provides readers with fresh perspectives for understanding the centrality of public debates about capital punishment to the history of American democracy.
Stephen John Hartnett is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois and author of Democratic Dissent & the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America. Laura Ann Stengrim is a doctoral candidate in Speech Communication at the University of Illinois and a contributor to Cultural Studies & Critical Methodologies and Communication and Critical Cultural Studies.
Contents Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Settler Debauchery, Capital Punishment, and the Theater of Colonial (Dis)Order, 1683-1741 Chapter 2: The Paradox of a Republican Revolution Usingn Executions as Pedagogy, 1768-1784 Chapter 3: The Hanging of Abraham Johnstone and the Turning of Terror into Hope, 1797 Chapter 4: Enlightenment, Republicanism, and Executions, 1785-1800 Conclusion: THe Haning of John M'Kean and the Perils of Sinning in an Age of Reason Notes Bibliography Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.3.2010 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Rhetoric & Public Affairs |
| Verlagsort | East Lansing, MI |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 626 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-87013-869-3 / 0870138693 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-87013-869-0 / 9780870138690 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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