Rites of Execution
Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 October 1991
- ISBN 9780195066630
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 211x136x16 mm
- Weight 281 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 halftones 0
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Long description:
Louis Masur's handsomely written account describes how, in the 1830s, public hangings were abandoned in favour of executions in the seclusion of prison yards. Masur sees attitudes toward state killing from the Revolution to the Civil War as reflecting the nation's social thinking.
`Rites of Execution is the work of a historian ingenious with sources, rich in imagination and mature in judgment.' The Nation
