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Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865 Masur, Louis P. (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Riverside)
Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865
Masur, Louis P. (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Riverside)
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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| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 30, 1991 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195066630 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 217 × 140 × 17 mm · 281 g |
| Language | English |