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Product Description: Buried Lives offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate several carceral institutions to show how confinement shaped identity, politics, and the social imaginary both in the colonies and in the new nation...read more
By Richard Bell (editor)

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9780820341194 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 1, 2012, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: Buried Lives offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America.

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9780820341200 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 1, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Buried Lives offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America.

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Product Description: A history of imprisonment in the United States that seeks to shed light on the role that incarceration has played in shaping the American experience. It looks at the connection between incarceration and slavery. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781555533649 | Northeastern Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Traces the history of prisons in American society from Columbus' voyages to the New World to the present

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9781555534684 | Northeastern Univ Pr, October 19, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A history of imprisonment in the United States that seeks to shed light on the role that incarceration has played in shaping the American experience.

Product Description: This text presents a comprehensive view of prison photography in the USA from its 19th-century beginnings to the present, which is informed by contemporary critical theory, sociology, historical perspective and a knowledge of photographic art...read more

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9780773481527 | Edwin Mellen Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: This text presents a comprehensive view of prison photography in the USA from its 19th-century beginnings to the present, which is informed by contemporary critical theory, sociology, historical perspective and a knowledge of photographic art.

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