Liberty's Prisoners : : Carceral Culture in Early America / / Jen Manion.
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 was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution's wake. Th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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