Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850 by Michael Ignatieff
Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850

Michael Ignatieff

Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850

Michael Ignatieff

288 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

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Subtitled The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850, A Just Measure of Pain describes the moment in 18th century England when the modern penitentiary and its ambiguous legacy were born. In depicting how the whip, the brand and the ga...

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