Liberty's prisoners : carceral culture in early America
Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary system was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, during a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2015]
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Series: | Early American studies
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HV 9955 .P4 M36 2015 |
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Copy 1 | Available |