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Laboratories of Virtue

Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835

Laboratories of Virtue( )
Author: Meranze, Michael
Series title:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4696-0048-2
Publication Date:Dec 2012
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $51.00
Book Description:

Michael Meranze uses Philadelphia as a case study to analyze the relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America. In Laboratories of Virtue, he interprets the evolving system of criminal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that characterized the early American republic. Engaging recent work on the history of punishment in England and continental Europe, Meranze traces criminal punishment from the late colonial system of publicly inflicted corporal...
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Pages:352
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.12 x 9.25 Inches



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