Executing Democracy
Executing Democracy

Author: Stephen John Hartnett

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1609172078

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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.

Multilingualism and History
Multilingualism and History

Author: Aneta Pavlenko

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-03-31

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1009236253

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Shattering the cliché 'our world is more multilingual than ever before', this book offers the first comprehensive history of our multilingual past.

Pennsylvania Land Wars with Connecticut and Virginia
Pennsylvania Land Wars with Connecticut and Virginia

Author: Don Corbly

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1304092666

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This is a book about the land wars Pennsylvania found itself embroiled in during the latter half of the 18th Century. The wars stemmed from the ambiguous Charters that established the the Colonies of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Virginia. Charles II created the conflict between Pennsylvania and Connecticut by the overlapping of the boundaries of the land he granted to each colony. Similarly, the land granted to Pennsylvania was contested by Virginia. But Virginia could have contested nearly any Colony's land grant. Virginia's grant from James I included most of present-day United States, northern Mexico, and most of western Canada. These armed conflicts were settled only by the first Congress established by the newly formed United States Constitution in 1787, when it ruled in Pennsylvania's favor.This book is purchased at the lowest cost through Lulu.com.