Meranze, Michael.

Laboratories of Virtue : Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (353 pages) - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series . - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series .

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Display -- Chapter 1: Public Punishments in Philadelphia -- Chapter 2: Public Labor -- Chapter 3: Mimetic Corruption -- Part Two: Imprisonment -- Chapter 4: The Origins of Reformative Incarceration in the City -- Chapter 5: The Dynamics of Discipline -- Part Three: Penitence -- Chapter 6: Boundaries, Architecture, and the Reconstruction of Penal Authority -- Chapter 7: Discipline, the Family, and the Individual -- Chapter 8: The Penitential Imagination -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

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Punishment-Pennsylvania-Philadelphia-History.
Prisons-Pennsylvania-Philadelphia-History.
Prison reformers-Pennsylvania-Philadelphia-History.


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