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Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of America Culture, 1776-1865

ISBN: 9780195066630

Contributors: Masur, Louis P (Author)

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1991

Binding: Paperback (Readerbound Available)

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This study examines the conflict over capital punishment in the United States and the way it transformed American culture between the revolution and the Civil War, relating the shift in rituals of punishment and attitudes toward discipline to the emergence of middle class culture.

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