Gentlemen Reformers

Author : Thomas Austin McMullin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gentlemen Reformers written by Thomas Austin McMullin and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norval Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190290757
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maconochie's Gentlemen written by Norval Morris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements in history into a controlled, stable, and productive environment that achieved such success that upon release his prisoners came to be called "Maconochie's Gentlemen". Here Norval Morris, one of our most renowned criminologists, offers a highly inventive and engaging account of this early pioneer in penal reform, enhancing Maconochie's life story with a trenchant policy twist. Maconochie's life and efforts on Norfolk Island, Morris shows, provide a model with profound relevance to the running of correctional institutions today. Using a unique combination of fictionalized history and critical commentary, Morris gives this work a powerful policy impact lacking in most standard academic accounts. In an era of "mass incarceration" that rivals that of the settlement of Australia, Morris injects the question of humane treatment back into the debate over prison reform. Maconochie and his "Marks system" played an influential role in the development of prisons; but for the last thirty years prison reform has been dominated by punitive and retributive sentiments, the conventional wisdom holding that we need 'supermax' prisons to control the 'worst of the worst' in solitary and harsh conditions. Norval Morris argues to the contrary, holding up the example of Alexander Maconochie as a clear-cut alternative to the "living hell" of prison systems today.

Author : Ronald G. Walters
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809015889
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Reformers, 1815-1860, Revised Edition written by Ronald G. Walters and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-01-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this new edition of American Reformers 1815-1860, Ronald G. Walters has amplified and updated his exploration of the fervent and diverse outburst of reform energy that shaped American history in the early years of the Republic. Capturing in style and substance the vigorous and often flamboyant men and women who crusaded for such causes as abolition, temperance, women's suffrage, and improved health care, Walters presents a brilliant analysis of how the reformers' radical belief that individuals could fix what ailed America both reflected major transformations in antebellum society and significantly affected American culture as a whole.

Author : Matthew J. Grow
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300136102
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Liberty to the Downtrodden" written by Matthew J. Grow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas L. Kane (1822-1883), a crusader for antislavery, women's rights, and the downtrodden, rose to prominence in his day as the most ardent and persuasive defender of Mormons' religious liberty. Though not a Mormon, Kane sought to defend the much-reviled group from the "Holy War" waged against them by evangelical America. His courageous personal intervention averted a potentially catastrophic bloody conflict between federal troops and Mormon settlers in the now nearly forgotten Utah War of 1857-58. Drawing on extensive, newly available archives, this book is the first to tell the full story of Kane's extraordinary life. The book illuminates his powerful Philadelphia family, his personal life and eccentricities, his reform achievements, his place in Mormon history, and his career as a Civil War general. Further, the book revises previous understandings of nineteenth-century reform, showing how Kane and likeminded others fused Democratic Party ideology, anti-evangelicalism, and romanticism.

Author : Joan Waugh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674930360
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unsentimental Reformer written by Joan Waugh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brahmin, member of an illustrious family, sister of the martyred Robert Gould Shaw, who led his proud black troops against Fort Wagner, and, later, a war widow, Lowell constantly responded to changing ideological and economic conditions affecting the poor.

Author : Robert MANNING (Professor in the English College at Douai.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's conversion and Reformation compared. Or, The young gentleman directed in the choice of his religion. To which is premised, a brief enquiry into the general grounds of the Catholick faith, etc. By Robert Manning written by Robert MANNING (Professor in the English College at Douai.) and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Manning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5W/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's Conversion and Reformation Compared, Or: the Young Gentleman Directed in the Choice of His Religion written by Robert Manning and published by . This book was released on 1725 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Camilla Stivers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureau Men, Settlement Women written by Camilla Stivers and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although the two intertwined at first, the contributions of these "settlement women" to the development of the administrative state have been largely lost as the new field of public administration evolved from the research bureaus and diverged from social work. Camilla Stivers now shows how public administration came to be dominated not just by science and business but also by masculinity, calling into question much that is taken for granted about the profession and creating an alternative vision of public service.".

Author : Alfred George Gardiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Benn and the Progressive Movement written by Alfred George Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dorothea Lynde Dix
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memorial [to the Legislature of Massachusetts on the condition of idiots and lunatics in prisons and asylums, etc.] written by Dorothea Lynde Dix and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: