Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835

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UNC Press Books, 1996 - 338 páginas
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 so
 

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Public Punishments in Philadelphia
19
Public Labor
55
Mimetic Corruption
87
The Origins of Reformative Incarceration in the City
131
The Dynamics of Discipline
173
Boundaries Architecture and the Reconstruction of Penal Authority
217
Discipline the Family and the Individual
253
The Penitential Imagination
293
INDEX
329
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Página 6 - It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion, or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality, it is produced permanently around, on, within the body by the functioning of a power that is exercised on those punished...

Acerca do autor (1996)

Michael Meranze is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.

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