Cultures of Confinement : A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

✍ Scribed by Frank Dikötter; Ian Brown

Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 348
Category: Library

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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
Index

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