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Books on: 18th century prisons

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Bentham's Prison: A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary

Book by Janet Semple; Clarendon Press, 1993

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Bentham, Jeremy--1748-1832, Prisons--Great Britain--Design And Construction--History--18th Century

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...authority of the county over the prisons and to impose onerous new...easy to visit eighteenth-century prisons, both for the philanthropist...Act forbade it to the new prisons. All visitors...interference by central government in prison administration.
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Jail Sentences: Representing Prison in Twentieth-Century French Fiction

Book by Andrew Sobanet; University of Nebraska Press, 2008

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French Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Prisons In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...maximum-security prisons, The Society of Captives...order to study the prison it must be interpreted...of the state: The prisons of the 18th and 19th centuries replaced the dungeons...perception of the prison as an institution...
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The Capitulations and the Ottoman Legal System: Perception, Theory, and Practice in the 18th Century

Book by Ruud Peters, Bernard Weiss; Brill, 2005

Subjects:

Aliens--Turkey--History--18th Century, Capitulations, Exterritoriality, Merchants, Foreign--Legal Status, Laws, Etc--Turkey--History--18th Century, Privileges And Immunities--Turkey--History--18th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...upon his release from prison, the debtor was issued...there were separate prisons for the detainment of...the late eighteenth-century English traveller and prison reformer, John Howard...the debtors have a prison separate and distinct...not separated from the prisons general population...
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Surgeons at War: Medical Arrangements for the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded in the British Army during the Late 18th and 19th Centuries

Book by Matthew H. Kaufman; Greenwood, 2001

Subjects:

Great Britain--Army--Medical Care--History--18th Century, Great Britain--Army--Medical Care--History--19th Century, Medicine, Military--Great Britain--History--18th Century, Medicine, Military--Great Britain--History--19th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...British Army, Volume 4, Part I, p. 72. 7. He had been appointed a Knight Bachelor in 1782, and inspector general of prisons in Ireland from May 1788. He was later appointed inspector of health for the Land Forces in September 1794, was retired on...
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America Perceived: A View from Abroad in the 18th Century

Book by James Axtel; Pendulum Press, 1974

Subjects:

Public Opinion--Europe--History--18th Century, United States--Civilization--To 1783, United States--Foreign Public Opinion

Collections: History, Entire Library

...German literature, is 30-40 years behind, it might possibly be a shrewd speculation to let loose from their book-stall prisons all our unread and forgotten poets and prosaists and transport them to America after the manner of the English at one time...

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Journal Articles on: 18th century prisons

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Imaginary Encounters with the New World: Native American Utopias in 18th-Century French Novels

Journal article by Guillaume Ansart; Utopian Studies, Vol. 11, 2000

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Candide, ou l'optimisme (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., French literature--18th century, Indigenous peoples--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Le Philosophe anglais, ou histoire de Monsieur Cleveland (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Les Aventures de ***, ou les effets surprenants de la sympathie (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Utopias in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Voltaire--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Native American Utopias in 18th-Century French Novels by GUILLAUME...system, parliaments, or prisons in Eldorado but is never...review of eighteenth-century French micro-utopias...the only eighteenth-century French novelist to have...
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Prison Health, Public Health: Obligations and Opportunities

Journal article by John V. Jacobi; American Journal of Law and Medicine, Vol. 31, 2005

Subjects:

Chronic illnesses, Community, Health facilities, Infectious diseases, Politics, Prisons, Public health, Sexually transmitted diseases--STD

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...53 Overcrowded prisons are of course unhealthy, and prison reformers attempted...medicine in the 20th Century, access to or...care provided in prisons and jails resulted...care.80 American prisons and jails are overcrowded...development of prison reform in America...beginning in the 18th Century, through waves...the 19th and 20th Centuries, to the present...
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The Warehouse Prison

Journal article by Eileen Baldry; Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol. 40, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Warehouse Prison (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...1931719357 The early 21st century is a time of extraordinarily...Is it a new breed of prison unlike its predecessors...Although The Warehouse Prison raises a number of important...a 6000 bed warehouse prison in California. The thugs...readily identified in prisons of yesterday. His discussion...and elsewhere in the 18th century. They fit Irwins...
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Punishment, Crime, and the Bodies of Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Journal article by Diana Paton; Journal of Social History, Vol. 34, 2001

Subjects:

Criminal justice, Administration of--18th century, Criminal law--Interpretation and construction, Jamaica--Politics and government, Slaveholders--Laws, regulations, etc., Slaves--Social aspects, Trials--Records and correspondence

Collections: History, Entire Library

...eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and from twentieth century ethnograp hies. However...Slave Lows of the 18th Century (Barbados, 1970...other eighteenth-century British colonial slave...Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of...
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A Positive Reinforcement Program in a 19th Century Penal Colony

Journal article by Peter A. Lamal, Pauline Dove Lamal; Behavior and Social Issues, Vol. 17, 2008

Subjects:

Prisoners, Prisons

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Reinforcement Program in a 19th Century Penal Colony by Peter...Dove Lamal From the late 18th Century until 1868 more than 150...Australias Founding, until the Prison Acts of 1835 and 1839...personal experience of prison life because he spent...

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Magazine Articles on: 18th century prisons

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Death Barges of Wallabout Bay: During the War for Independence, the British Kept Many Captured American Soldiers and Privateers in Horrid Conditions Onboard Overcrowded Prison Ships

Magazine article by Michael E. Telzrow; The New American, Vol. 22, January 23, 2006

Subjects:

American Revolution, 1775-1783--History, Military maneuvers--History, Military operations--History, National liberation movements--History, National liberation movements--Military aspects, Prison hulks--History, Prison ships--History, Prisoners of war--Crimes against, United Kingdom--History, United Kingdom--Military aspects, United States history--History, United States history--Revolution, 1775-1783, United States--History, United States--Military aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...enforced, 18th-century prisoners of war...predecessors in previous centuries, the late 18th-century soldiers or sailors...of time spent in prison. During the 18th century, governments...soldiers held in enemy prisons. This was accomplished...
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Historical Perspectives: Changes in Jail and Prison Design

Magazine article by Norman E. Wirkler; Corrections Today, Vol. 57, August 1995

Subjects:

Prisons--Design and construction

Collections: Entire Library

...changes in jail and prison design. by Norman...references to the use of prisons by the Roman Empire...colonies in the 16th century to provide hard...continued into the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when Australia...arrived. In the 17th century, Europeans began holding in prisons persons convicted...population and prison crowding led to...
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Here Is What the 18th Century Meant by the Sublime: Aesthetic Appreciation of Terror

Magazine article by Peter Davey; The Architectural Review, Vol. 228, November 2010

Subjects:

Architectural firms--Exhibitions, Architectural practice--Exhibitions, Architectural services--Exhibitions, Nonprofit organizations--Exhibitions, San Giorgio Maggiore (Island)--Exhibitions

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...form our image of the 18th-century city. Yet...imaginary underground prisons, which could be glimpses...quintessentially, is what the 18th century meant by the...gruesome enough, but in the 18th century they must have been shocking...imagination for over two centuries. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...
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Status Anxiety: Hogarth Documented the 18th-Century Class Divide-But He Was Also a Keen Social Climber

Magazine article by Rachel Aspden; New Statesman, Vol. 136, February 5, 2007

Subjects:

Hogarth, William (English painter)--Criticism and interpretation, Hogarth, William (English painter)--Works, Social class--Influence, Social classes--Influence

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...Hogarth Documented the 18th-Century Class Divide-But He Was...Aspden First among the 18th centurys many gifts to...qualified to observe the 18th-century interplay of...brothels, gambling houses and prisons--with evident relish...
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The Valiant Vendeans: As the Forces of Revolution Ravaged France near the End of the 18th Century, the Vendeans Heroically Rose Up to Defend Their Religion, Their Families, and Their Way of Life

Magazine article by William Norman Grigg; The New American, Vol. 18, June 17, 2002

Subjects:

Counterrevolutionists--France, France, French Revolution, 1789

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...France near the End of the 18th Century, the Vendeans Heroically...that by the dawn of the 18th century the Vendean nobility...gendarmes and hustled off to prison, but not before their...and his troops filled prisons throughout Nantes to...Carrier invoked the lack of prison space as evidence that...

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Newspaper Articles on: 18th century prisons

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The Days When the Jailhouse Rocked; Misery and Terror: Before the 20th Century, Prisons Were Hell-Holes

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 25, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Terror: Before the 20th Century, Prisons Were Hell-Holes...until the mid-19th century, gathered for public...Prisoners in these early centuries also probably included...took place in the 16th century, from royal tournaments...By the middle of the 18th century, more than...Elizabeth Fry shamed the prison wardens into allowing...
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'Move Prison to Make Way for Developments' Deputy Council Leader Wants Jail to Be Shut and Rebuilt 'Along the M4'

Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), January 3, 2011

Subjects:

Prisons

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...womens prison and if a new prison was built in the south...Knox Road, used as a prison since 1832, would potentially...From the turn of the 18th century, the Glamorganshire...Cardiff: Page 14 CITY PRISONS PAST HMP Cardiff was...executions took place at the prison. The last man to be...
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Longer Sentences Alone Is Not Enough; with Britain's Prisons System at Breaking Point, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Talks of His Concerns over Longer Sentences for Offenders

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 12, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...dedication with which the Prison Service attempts to give...large proportion of the prison population suffers from...will be destroyed if prisons are over-crowded...being shuffled from one prison to another, so that...the punishments of the 18th Century. My other concern is...
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A House of Gain; Chris Upton Tells the Story of a Gloucestershire Prison Which Was the Blueprint for Penal Reform across the Country in the 1790s

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 7, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...with a rich heritage of prison buildings. In fact...banged up to do a spot of prison visiting. As society...archives. The former prisons at both Ripon and Lincoln...Fosseway, is not a prison; it is a house of correction...the country during the 18th century to deal with...the middle of the 18th century the very concept of...Wold in 1974 did two centuries of correction come to...
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How to Holiday Just like Bridget; ...without Ending Up in a Thai Prison Cell

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 7, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...without Ending Up in a Thai Prison Cell. Byline: SARAH TURNER...best and worst of several Thai prisons researched by the production...without ending up in a Thai prison. THE COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL Stoke...with an expensive suite in an 18th Century mansion by a lake. The scenes...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: 18th century prisons

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Prison

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...By the end of the 18th cent. imprisonment...the growth of the prison population appeared...federal and state prisons, only a 4.6...The chief types of prisons in the United States...rapid increase in prison population has led...contractors operate prisons. These private...by the end of the century. Some of these...
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Racquets

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...speed of the ball makes racquets one of the fastest and most dangerous games. It originated in 18th-century England, probably in debtors prisons, but was soon adopted by the wealthier classes. Expensive racquets courts were built in England...
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Venice

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...c.1600) leads to the former prisons; the Old and New Law Courts...most original artistic city of 18th-century Italy, they represented to some...military decline. Politics in 18th-century Venice was aristocratic and stagnant...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...maintaining secret, underground CIA prisons abroad. Subsequent news reporting indicated that there were prisons in eight nations in E Europe and Asia...CIA had maintained a group of secret prisons.) A Swiss investigator for the Council...
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Brazil

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...great sugar culture that for centuries dominated Brazil. The Northeast...the region in the 17th and 18th cent., when the paulistas...ended. Brazil in the Twentieth Century The creation of rubber plantations...including corruption in the prisons and lawlessness among the police...

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