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

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

Michael Meranze

352 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 tensio...

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