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Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Michael Meranze 2 Revised edition
Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Michael Meranze
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.
352 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 29, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807856314 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 352 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 20 mm · 544 g |
| Language | English |