by RichardBell (Author), Michele Lise Tarter (Editor)
Offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate several carceral institutions to show how confinement shaped identity, politics, and the social imaginary both in the colonies and in the new nation.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 15 Jan 2012
ISBN 10: 0820341193
ISBN 13: 9780820341194