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Laboratories of Virtue : Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835

Second Edition

by Michael Meranze

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Format Paperback / Softback
Book Series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10 0807856312
ISBN-13 9780807856314
Edition Second Edition
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Apr 29th, 1996
Print length 352 Pages
Weight 333 grams
Dimensions 23.30 x 15.50 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification: History of the AmericasHistory of the Americas
Ksh 6,650.00
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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.
Michael Meranze uses Philadelphia as a case study to analyze 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. Engaging recent work on the history of punishment in England and continental Europe, Meranze traces criminal punishment from the late colonial system of publicly inflicted corporal penalties to the establishment of penitentiaries in the Jacksonian period. Throughout, he reveals a world of class difference and contested values in which those who did not fit the emerging bourgeois ethos were disciplined and eventually segregated.

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. His study, richly informed by Foucaultian and Freudian theory, departs from recent scholarship that treats penal reform as a nostalgic effort to reestablish social stability. Instead, Meranze interprets the reform of punishment as a forward-looking project. He argues that the new disciplinary practices arose from the reformers'' struggle to contain or eliminate contradictions to their vision of an enlightened, liberal republic.

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