Laboratories of virtue : punishment, revolution, and authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 /
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 Am...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1996] |
| Series: | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text |