Executing Democracy: Volume One: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807
by Stephen John Hartnett
Michigan State University Press, 2010 Cloth: 978-0-87013-869-0 | eISBN: 978-1-60917-207-7 Library of Congress Classification HV8699.U5H374 2010 Dewey Decimal Classification 364.660973
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807 is the first volume of a rhetorical history of public debates about crime, violence, and capital punishment in America. This examination begins in 1683, when William Penn first struggled to govern the rowdy indentured servants of Philadelphia, and continues up until 1807, when the Federalists sought to impose law-and-order upon the New Republic.
This volume offers a lively historical overview of how crime, violence, and capital punishment influenced the settling of the New World, the American Revolution, and the frantic post-war political scrambling to establish norms that would govern the new republic.
By presenting a macro-historical overview, and by filling the arguments with voices from different political camps and communicative genres, Hartnett provides readers with fresh perspectives for understanding the centrality of public debates about capital punishment to the history of American democracy.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Stephen John Hartnett is Associate Professor [chair] of the Department of Communication, University of Colorado Denver. Hartnett has written numerous books; has spent nineteen years teaching in, writing about, and protesting at America's prisons; and is the editor of Captured Words/Free Thoughts, a magazine of art and poems by imprisoned writers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Settler Debauchery, Capital Punishment, and the Theater of Colonial (Dis)Order, 1683-1741
Chapter 2: The Paradox of a Republican Revolution Usingn Executions as Pedagogy, 1768-1784
Chapter 3: The Hanging of Abraham Johnstone and the Turning of Terror into Hope, 1797
Chapter 4: Enlightenment, Republicanism, and Executions, 1785-1800
Conclusion: THe Haning of John M'Kean and the Perils of Sinning in an Age of Reason
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Executing Democracy: Volume One: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807
by Stephen John Hartnett
Michigan State University Press, 2010 Cloth: 978-0-87013-869-0 eISBN: 978-1-60917-207-7
Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807 is the first volume of a rhetorical history of public debates about crime, violence, and capital punishment in America. This examination begins in 1683, when William Penn first struggled to govern the rowdy indentured servants of Philadelphia, and continues up until 1807, when the Federalists sought to impose law-and-order upon the New Republic.
This volume offers a lively historical overview of how crime, violence, and capital punishment influenced the settling of the New World, the American Revolution, and the frantic post-war political scrambling to establish norms that would govern the new republic.
By presenting a macro-historical overview, and by filling the arguments with voices from different political camps and communicative genres, Hartnett provides readers with fresh perspectives for understanding the centrality of public debates about capital punishment to the history of American democracy.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Stephen John Hartnett is Associate Professor [chair] of the Department of Communication, University of Colorado Denver. Hartnett has written numerous books; has spent nineteen years teaching in, writing about, and protesting at America's prisons; and is the editor of Captured Words/Free Thoughts, a magazine of art and poems by imprisoned writers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Settler Debauchery, Capital Punishment, and the Theater of Colonial (Dis)Order, 1683-1741
Chapter 2: The Paradox of a Republican Revolution Usingn Executions as Pedagogy, 1768-1784
Chapter 3: The Hanging of Abraham Johnstone and the Turning of Terror into Hope, 1797
Chapter 4: Enlightenment, Republicanism, and Executions, 1785-1800
Conclusion: THe Haning of John M'Kean and the Perils of Sinning in an Age of Reason
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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