Southern Mercy : Empire and American Civilization in Juvenile Reform, 1890-1944 /
"From the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century juvenile reformatories served as citizen-building institutions and a political tool of state racism in post-emancipation America. New South advocates cemented their regional affiliation by using these reformatories to showcase mercies which wer...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Swamp Island; 2 The Samarcand Arson Case; 3 The Energy of Despair1; 4 The Merciful Executioner; 5 The Prodigal Son; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.