Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 Paperback - 1996
by Michael Meranze
Using Philadelphia as a case study, Meranze investigates the complex and contested relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America.
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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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- Title Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835
- Author Michael Meranze
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Omohundro Institute and Unc Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-04-29
- ISBN 9780807856314 / 0807856312
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.79 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.01 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-45117
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.609
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- Ingram Advance, 07/01/2005, Page 113
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