The fabrication of virtue : English prison architecture, 1750-1840 /

• Main Author: Evans, Robin, 1944-1993
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.
• Subjects: Φυλακές > Μεγάλη Βρετανία > Σχέδιο και κατασκευή > Ιστορία; Φυλακές > Ιστορία; Αρχιτεκτονική > Ιστορία

Review: First published in 1982, this book describes a new kind of prison architecture that developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The book concentrates on architecture, but places it in the context of contemporary penal practice and contemporary thought. Beginning with an...