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Executing Democracy : Volume One: Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1683-1807.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rhetoric and Public Affairs SeriesPublisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (354 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781609172077
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Executing DemocracyLOC classification:
  • HV8699
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
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Intro -- 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.

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