If you were to examine an 1816 map of the world, you would discover that half the countries represented there no longer exist. Yet since 1945, the disappearance

For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Agains

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE: Restricting Private Warfare -- TWO: Coroners and

Discusses literary representations of death to explore the relation between writing and death--death understood as both the death of the individual and the deat

Before constitutional regulation -- The Supreme Court steps in -- The invisibility of race in the constitutional revolution -- Between the Supreme Court and the