Cultures of confinement
Subtitle: a history of the prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America
By: Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown, editors.
Contributors: Dikötter, Frank.; Brown, Ian, 1947-
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801446306
Subjects: Prisons -- Africa -- History.; Prisons -- Asia -- History.; Prisons -- Latin America -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Prisons and prisoners in modernising Latin America (1800-1940) / Carlos Aguirre; value: The shadow of rule : colonial power and modern punishment in Africa / Florence Bernault; value: Regulation, reform and resistance in the Middle Eastern prison / Anthony Gorman; value: India : the contested prison / David Arnold; value: Sepoys, servants and settlers : convict transportation in the Indian Ocean, 1787-1945 / Clare Anderson; value: South East Asia : reform and the colonial prison / Ian Brown; value: The promise of repentance : the prison in modern China / Frank Dikötter; value: Envisioning the colonial prison / Clare Anderson and David Arnold.