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: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 15 Mar 2012
ISBN 10: 0820341207
ISBN 13: 9780820341200