From Newgate to Dannemora : : The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796–1848 /

From Newgate to Dannemora : : The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796–1848 / / W. David Lewis.

A significant chapter in the history of American social reform is traced in this skillful account of the rise of the New York penitentiary system at a time when the United States was garnering international acclaim for its penal methods. Beginning with Newgate, an ill-fated institution built in New...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Lewis, W. David,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Chapter I. The Heritage
  • Chapter II. The First Experiment
  • Chapter III. The Setting for a New Order
  • Chapter IV. The Auburn System and Its Champions
  • Chapter V. Portrait of an Institution
  • Chapter VI. The House of Fear
  • Chapter VII. The Ordeal of the Unredeemables
  • Chapter VIII. Prisons, Profits, and Protests
  • Chapter IX. A New Outlook
  • Chapter X. Radicalism and Reaction
  • Chapter XI. Ebb Tide
  • Chapter XII. Change and Continuity
  • A Critical Essay on Sources
  • Index

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