Laboratories of virtue : punishment, revolution, and authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 / Michael Meranze.

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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Main Author: Meranze, Michael
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Language:English
Published: 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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Call Number: HV9481.P5 M47 1996eb
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