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

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.

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  • "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."@en
  • "Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Western societies abandoned public executions in favor of private punishments, primarily confinement in penitentiaries and private executions. The transition, guided by a reconceptualization of the causes of crime, the nature of authority, and the purposes of punishment, embodied the triumph of new sensibilities and the reconstitution of cultural values throughout the Western world. 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."@en

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  • "Ressources Internet"
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  • "History"
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  • "Livres électroniques"
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  • "Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)"

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  • "Rites of execution : capital punishment ant the transformation of American culture, 1776-1865"
  • "Rites of execution capital punishment and the transformation of American culture, 1776-1865"@en
  • "Rites of execution capital punishment and the transformation of American culture, 1776-1865"

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