Comparing Exceptionalism in France and the USA

This article challenges the current scholarship on the history of the death penalty and its abolition by adopting a transatlantic framework and debunking the popular contemporary conception of the “Barbaric Americans” against the “civilised” anti-death penalty French. The article focuses on the shor...

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Main Author: Elsa Devienne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2010-01-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/7745
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