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1 online resource (xii, 338 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Public Punishments in Philadelphia -- Ch. 2. Public Labor -- Ch. 3. Mimetic Corruption -- Ch. 4. Origins of Reformative Incarceration in the City -- Ch. 5. Dynamics of Discipline -- Ch. 6. Boundaries, Architecture, and the Reconstruction of Penal Authority -- Ch. 7. Discipline, the Family, and the Individual -- Ch. 8. Penitential Imagination. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Laboratories of Virtue demonstrates the ramifications of the history of punishment for the struggles to define a new revolution order. By focusing attention on the system of public penal labor that developed in the 1780s, Meranze effectively links penal reform to the development of republican principles in the Revolutionary era. In addition, Meranze argues, the emergence of reformative incarceration was a crucial symptom of the crises of the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary public spheres. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Punishment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
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Punishment. |
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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History. |
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Prisons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
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Prisons. |
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Prison reformers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
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Prison reformers. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Meranze, Michael. Laboratories of virtue 0807822779 (DLC) 95045117 (OCoLC)33357178 |
| ISBN |
9781469600482 (electronic book) |
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146960048X (electronic book) |
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0807822779 |
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9780807822777 |
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0807856312 |
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9780807856314 |
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