Michael Meranze: 1 book
Laboratories of Virtue
Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
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 tensions that characterized the early American republic....
