Rites of Execution
Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865
Louis P. Masur
Rites of Execution
Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865
Louis P. Masur
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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.
`Rites of Execution is the work of a historian ingenious with sources, rich in imagination and mature in judgment.' The Nation
`Rites of Execution is the work of a historian ingenious with sources, rich in imagination and mature in judgment.' The Nation