Laboratories Of Virtue

Punishment, Revolution, And Authority In Philadelphia, 1760-1835

by Michael Meranze
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Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS, April of 1996 ‧
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Michael Meranze uses Philadelphia as a case study to analyse the relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America. In Laboratories of Virtue, he interprets the evolving system of criminal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that characterized the early American republic.

Laboratories Of Virtue

Punishment, Revolution, And Authority In Philadelphia, 1760-1835

by Michael Meranze

Property Description
ISBN: 9780807856314
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Release Date: April of 1996
Language: English
Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 20 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 352
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > History > History of America
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780807856314