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Cultures of Confinement : a History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their history in global perspective. Rather than interpreting the prison's proliferation as the predictable res...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; CULTURES OF CONFINEMENT; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Prisons and Prisoners in Modernising Latin America (1800-1940); 3. The Shadow of Rule: Colonial Power and Modern Punishment in Africa; 4. Regulation, Reform and Resistance in the Middle Eastern Prison; 5. India: The Contested Prison; 6. Sepoys, Servants and Settlers: Convict Transportation in the Indian Ocean, 1787-1945; 7. South East Asia: Reform and the Colonial Prison; 8. The Promise of Repentance: The Prison in Modern China; 9. Envisioning the Colonial Prison.