Rites of Execution
Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:10th Oct '91
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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.
`Rites of Execution is the work of a historian ingenious with sources, rich in imagination and mature in judgment.' The Nation
ISBN: 9780195066630
Dimensions: 210mm x 137mm x 17mm
Weight: 290g
224 pages