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Rites of execution: capital punishment and the transformation of American culture, 1776-1865
Louis P. Masur
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Frontmatter
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Introduction (page 3)
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1. Ritual and Reform in Antebellum America (page 9)
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2. The Design of Public Executions in the Early American Republic (page 25)
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3. The Opposition to Capital Punishment in Post-Revolutionary America (page 50)
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4. The Dream of Reformation and the Limits of Reform (page 71)
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5. The Origins of Private Executions in America (page 93)
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6. Anti-Gallows Activists and the Commitment to Moral Reform (page 117)
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7. The Conflict over Capital Punishment in Antebellum America (page 141)
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Epilogue (page 160)
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Notes (page 165)
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Index (page 199)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AHR | 95.4 (Oct. 1990): 1273-1274 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2163660 |
RAH | 18.2 (Jun. 1990): 208-212 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2702750 |
JAH | 77.1 (Jun. 1990): 283-284 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2078678 |
WMQ | 47.1 (Jan. 1990): 161-163 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2938055 |
AMsI | 28. 1 (April 1990): 101 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/41280558 |
JER | 10.3 (Autumn 1990): 415-416 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3123397 |
PMHB | 115.1 (Jan. 1991): 123-124 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20092578 |
JSocH | 24.1 (Autumn 1990): 199-201 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3787656 |
AJLH | 34. 3 (Jul. 1990): 317-318 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/845890 |
LHR | 10.1 (Spring 1992): 182-186 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/743821 |
AAAPSS | 509 (May 1990): 188-189 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1046477 |
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Published: 1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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