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Laboratories of virtue : punishment, revolution, and authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 / Michael Meranze.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)1996.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 338 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469600482
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV9481 .L336 1996
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Contents:
Public Punishments in Philadelphia -- Public Labor -- Mimetic Corruption -- The Origins of Reformative Incarceration in the City -- The Dynamics of Discipline -- Boundaries, Architecture, and the Reconstruction of Penal Authority -- Discipline, the Family, and the Individual -- The Penitential Imagination.
Subject: 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.Summary: 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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Includes bibliographies and index.

Public Punishments in Philadelphia -- Public Labor -- Mimetic Corruption -- The Origins of Reformative Incarceration in the City -- The Dynamics of Discipline -- Boundaries, Architecture, and the Reconstruction of Penal Authority -- Discipline, the Family, and the Individual -- The Penitential Imagination.

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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