Peculiar institution: America's death penalty in an age of abolition
Prologue : the exemplary execution -- A peculiar institution -- The American way of death -- Historical modes of capital punishment -- The death penalty's decline -- Processes of transformation -- State and society in america -- Capital punishment in America -- An American abolition -- New poli...
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass.
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2010
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In: | Year: 2010 |
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Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 20 A 4623 |
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Summary: | Prologue : the exemplary execution -- A peculiar institution -- The American way of death -- Historical modes of capital punishment -- The death penalty's decline -- Processes of transformation -- State and society in america -- Capital punishment in America -- An American abolition -- New political and cultural meanings -- Reinventing the death penalty -- Death and its uses -- Epilogue : discourse and death |
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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Physical Description: | 417 S. graph. Darst. |
ISBN: | 9780199594993 9780674057234 |