Executing Democracy
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
9781611865370 (ISBN)
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 [chair] of the Department of Communication, University of Colorado Denver. Hartnett has written numerous books; has spent nineteen years teaching in, writing about, and protesting at America's prisons; and is the editor of Captured Words/Free Thoughts, a magazine of art and poems by imprisoned writers.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.09.2024 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Rhetoric & Public Affairs |
| Verlagsort | East Lansing, MI |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781611865370 / 9781611865370 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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