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Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society - Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Bell, Richard Thomas (University of Oxford)
Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society - Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Bell, Richard Thomas (University of Oxford)
Why and how did English society embrace the prison as an answer to social problems? This study offers an essential history of imprisonment, emerging carceral ideologies and abolitionist politics between 1550-1700. Richard Thomas Bell sheds new light on the development of carceral ideas that remain both fundamental and controversial today.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| To be released | October 31, 2026 |
| ISBN13 | 9781009759397 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 340 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 500 g |