Laboratories of virtue : punishment, revolution, and authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 / Michael...
Laboratories of virtue : punishment, revolution, and authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 / Michael...
Laboratories of virtue : punishment, revolution, and authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 / Michael Meranze.
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Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1996.
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N364.609748/1
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English
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xii, 338 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Public Punishments in Philadelphia -- Ch. 2. Public Labor -- Ch. 3. Mimetic Corruption -- Ch. 4. The Origins of Reformative Incarceration in the City -- Ch. 5. The Dynamics of Discipline -- Ch. 6. Boundaries, Architecture, and the Reconstruction of Penal Authority -- Ch. 7. Discipline, the Fa...
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Publisher
Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1996.
Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
c1996.
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Laboratories of Virtue investigates the complex and contested relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America. Using Philadelphia as a case study, Michael Meranze interprets the evolving system of criminal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that characterized the early American republic. Laboratories of Virtue demonstrat...
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Laboratories of virtue : punishment, revolution, and authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 / Michael Meranze.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N364.609748/1
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74VvD65yrgxb
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0807822779 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807822777 (cloth : alk. paper)
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364.60974811
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991004869569702626
