Recenze Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons

Confronts the enduring claim that American Civil War military prisons represented an apocalyptic and a historical rupture in America's otherwise linear and progressive carceral history. Instead, it places the war years in the broader context of imprisonment in 19th-century America and contends that officers in charge of military prisons drew on practices that existed in civilian penitentiaries. schovat popis