A just measure of pain : the penitentiary in the industrial revolution, 1750-1850

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Pentonville....Pages 3-14 Eighteenth Century Punishment....Pages 15-43 Cords of Love, Fetters of Iron: The Ideological Origins of the Penitentiary....Pages 44-79 Preaching Walls: The Penitentiary in Practice....Pages 80-113 Whigs, Jacobins, and the Bastilles: The Penitentiary Under Attack....Pages 114-142 The Politics of Prison Reform in the Peterloo Era....Pages 143-173 Prisons, the State, and the Labor Market, 1820–1842....Pages 174-206 Conclusion....Pages 207-220 Back Matter....Pages 221-257