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A Just Measure of Pain
A Just Measure of Pain
Author: Michael Ignatieff
Subtitled "The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850", "A Just Measure of Pain" describes the moment in 18th-century England when the modern penitentiary and its ambiguous legacy were born. In depicting how the whip, the brand and the gallows - public punishments once meant to cow the unruly poor into passivity ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780231050579
ISBN-10: 0231050577
Publication Date: 6/1/1980
Pages: 257
Edition: Columbia University
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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