TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hartnett,Stephen J.
TI  - Executing Democracy: Volume One: Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1683-1807
T2  - Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series
SN  - 9781609172077
AV  - HV8699 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - East Lansing
PB  - Michigan State University Press
KW  - Capital punishment-United States-History
KW  - Crime-United States-History
KW  - Rhetoric-Political aspects-United States-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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