Colonial and Post-Colonial Incarceration

ISBN: 9780826448651 出版年：2001 页码：279 Bloomsbury Publishing

The first study to deal extensively and comparatively with capture, imprisonment and punishment in colonial and postcolonial cultures. Offering textual as well as historical analysis, each chapter focuses on a specific national or regional arena. Each also provides foundational insight into the social, economic and cultural conditions prevalent in colonial societies. Chapters, written by a wide range of international specialists, include coverage of the early modern to the contemporary period as well as coverage of cultural arento Asia, Australia, northern and southern Africa and North America.