John Howard's Winter's Journey
Author : William Augustus Guy
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Prison reformers
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Author : William Augustus Guy
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Prison reformers
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Author : Richard Creese
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Prisoners
ISBN : 9789051838695
In eighteenth-century Britain, gaols were places of temporary confinement, where inmates stayed while awaiting punishment. With the rise of the 'penitentiary' from the early nineteenth century, custodial institutions housed prisoners for much longer periods of time. Prisoners were supposed to be reformed as well as punished during their incarceration. From at least the time of John Howard (1726-1790), the health of prisoners has been part of the concern of philanthropists and others concerned with the wider functions of prisons. The Victorians established a Prison Medical Service, and members of the medical profession have long been involved in caring for the mental and physical needs of prisoners. For two centuries, prison overcrowding has been identified as a major cause of mortality and morbidity in prisons. Historical debates thus often have a modern ring to them, which make the essays in this volume particularly timely.
Author : John Howard Raymond
Publisher :
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 1880
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Author : James Baldwin Brown
Publisher :
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 1818
Category : Philanthropists
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Author :
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Page : 982 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Harry Oldmeadow
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0941532577
This is the first book to treat the impact of religious, philosophical and psychological traditions of the East on Western intellectuals, artists, travellers and spiritual seekers in the twentieth century. Addressed to both general readers and scholars of religion, it is especially valuable for its penetrating and inter-religious analysis of two of the most compelling themes now facing the world: the emergence of cross-cultural religious understanding of the natural order and ecological crisis and the metaphysical basis for both the formal diversity and essential unity of religious traditions of both East and West. The West has long romanticized the "mysterious" East, but it has, also, judged its traditions as "uncivilized." Our notions about Eastern spirituality have been formed by a succession of travellers, scientists, artists, intellectuals, poets, philosophers and missionaries, as well as by Eastern travellers who have spent time in the West. This book helps us to recognize the influence of Eastern ideas upon modern Western thought by tracing the history of engagements between East and West up until the present day. It concludes with a section that helps us to perceive the timeless value of the many Eastern contributions to the West's current intellectual and spiritual state.
Author : Martin Southwood
Publisher : London : Independent Press [1958]
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Prison reformers
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Author : Royal statistical society libr
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Page : 594 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 1884
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Author : Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain). Library
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Sean D. Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192573411
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora. The volume is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery.