Laboratories of virtue
punishment, revolution, and authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835
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Publication
1996 - Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
84,500 words, Guess
Page Count
338 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL808376M
- ISBN-100807822779
- OCLC Control Number861793488
- OCLC Control Number33357178
- OCLC Control Numberlaboratoriesofvi0000mera
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- Library of Congress Control Number95045117
- LibraryThing415181
- Goodreads1888387
Classifications
- DDC364.6/09748/11
- LCCHV9481.P5 M47 1996
Description
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 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.
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