Rebecca M. McLennan

Gebundenes Buch

The Crisis of Imprisonment

Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776 1941

Beschreibung

This book offers a sweeping reinterpretation of American penal history between the Revolution and World War II.

Autor

Rebecca M. McLennan is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She has also taught at Columbia University and Harvard University. She completed her graduate studies in American History at Columbia University, where her doctoral thesis on the making of the progressive penal state was awarded the Bancroft Prize for best dissertation in historical studies in 1999.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 987g
• ISBN-13: 9780521830966
• ISBN-10: 0521830966
• Artikelnr.: 29337801