2002, ISBN: 9780674007512

[likely New England], 1833. A plea from unknown author offering statistics, historical contect, and warnings of the dangers of a half-way approach to temperance. Advocating for the kind … Mehr…

[likely New England], 1833. A plea from unknown author offering statistics, historical contect, and warnings of the dangers of a half-way approach to temperance. Advocating for the kind legal ban of alcohol that would finally come to fruition during Prohibition, the anonymous lecturer mixes a potent cocktail (sorry, had to) of morality and patriotism: "Intemperance is the severest scourge with which our nation was ever visited. It has for many years rolled its waves of desolation over us, spreading poverty, ruin, death and devestation around. Intemperance has filled our lands with widows and orphans. Under his black banner crime has stalked abroad at mid day and worked in darkness, he has fed the hungry man of pestilence and nourished disease while they have done his deeds of cruelty [...] He hath filled our prisons and jails, our poorhouses and penitentiaries with his unhappy visitors." Reference to Reuben Mussey, Professor at Dartmouth College (who left Dartmouth in 1838) and the "recent establishment of the Congressional Temperance Society" (which was established in 1833) appear to date the manuscript to the mid 1830s; the paleography is consistent with this period as well. The lack of corrections suggests either fair copy or utilized in delivery. An apparently unpublished lecture (bordering on sermon) from the early years of the American temperance movement. Oblong 8vo. self-wrappers. Awkwardly hand-stitched in a rather ad-hoc manner. 21 leaves of manuscript penned in a neat and legible hand recto and verso. [42]pp. in all. Mild toning, infrequent foxing, moderate edgewear. Overall, very good., 1833, 0, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Harvard. New. 2002. Hardcover. 0674007514 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: -- Introduction 1 * 1 Terror, Blood, and Repentance 5 * 2 Hanging Day 24 * 3 Degrees of Death 53 * 4 The Origins of Opposition 88 * 5 Northern Reform, Southern Retention 112 * 6 Into the Jail Yard 144 * 7 Technological Cures 169 * 8 Decline 208 * 9 To the Supreme Court 231 * 10 Resurrection 267 * Epilogue 307 * App Counting Executions 313 * Notes 315 * Acknowledgments 371 * Index 373. DESCRIPTION: The death penalty arouses more passion than almost any other issue. While some of us believe execution is just and reasonable punishment, others view it as an inhumane and barbaric act. The intensity of feeling that capital punishment provokes obscures its long and varied course in American history. Here, for the first time, we have a comprehensive account of the death penalty in the United States. Stuart Banner tells the story of dramatic changes, over four centuries, in the ways capital punishment has been administered and experienced. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, death was the standard penalty for a laundry list of crimes--from adultery to murder, from arson to horse- theft. Hangings were public events, staged before enormous audiences, attended by women and men, young and old, black and white. Early on, the gruesome spectacle was an explicitly religious event--replete with sermons, confessions, and last-minute penitence--to promote the salvation of both the condemned person and the spectators. Through the nineteenth century, in response to changing mores, execution became increasingly secular and private. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as execution has become a quiet, sanitary, technological procedure, the death penalty is as divisive as ever. Re-creating what it was like to be the condemned prisoner, the executioner, and the eyewitness, Banner moves beyond the debates to give us an unprecedented understanding of America's ultimate punishment. With nearly four thousand inmates now on death row, and almost one hundred being executed each year, this book provides a much-needed perspective on an age-old issue that continues to haunt us today., Harvard, 2002, 6<

2002, ISBN: 9780674007512

Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Harvard. New. 2002. Hardcover. 0674007514 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE… Mehr…

Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Harvard. New. 2002. Hardcover. 0674007514 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: -- Introduction 1 * 1 Terror, Blood, and Repentance 5 * 2 Hanging Day 24 * 3 Degrees of Death 53 * 4 The Origins of Opposition 88 * 5 Northern Reform, Southern Retention 112 * 6 Into the Jail Yard 144 * 7 Technological Cures 169 * 8 Decline 208 * 9 To the Supreme Court 231 * 10 Resurrection 267 * Epilogue 307 * App Counting Executions 313 * Notes 315 * Acknowledgments 371 * Index 373. DESCRIPTION: The death penalty arouses more passion than almost any other issue. While some of us believe execution is just and reasonable punishment, others view it as an inhumane and barbaric act. The intensity of feeling that capital punishment provokes obscures its long and varied course in American history. Here, for the first time, we have a comprehensive account of the death penalty in the United States. Stuart Banner tells the story of dramatic changes, over four centuries, in the ways capital punishment has been administered and experienced. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, death was the standard penalty for a laundry list of crimes--from adultery to murder, from arson to horse- theft. Hangings were public events, staged before enormous audiences, attended by women and men, young and old, black and white. Early on, the gruesome spectacle was an explicitly religious event--replete with sermons, confessions, and last-minute penitence--to promote the salvation of both the condemned person and the spectators. Through the nineteenth century, in response to changing mores, execution became increasingly secular and private. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as execution has become a quiet, sanitary, technological procedure, the death penalty is as divisive as ever. Re-creating what it was like to be the condemned prisoner, the executioner, and the eyewitness, Banner moves beyond the debates to give us an unprecedented understanding of America's ultimate punishment. With nearly four thousand inmates now on death row, and almost one hundred being executed each year, this book provides a much-needed perspective on an age-old issue that continues to haunt us today., Harvard, 2002, 6<