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Prisons, Asylums, and the Public : Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century /

Prisons, Asylums, and the Public argues that, rather than existing in isolation, these institutions were closely connected to the communities beyond their walls. Challenging traditional interpretations of public visiting, Janet Miron examines the implications and imperatives of visiting from the per...

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Autor principal: Miron, Janet (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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