Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons by Angela M Zombek

Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons by Angela M Zombek

Confronts the enduring claim that American Civil War military prisons represented an apocalyptic and a historical rupture in America's otherwise linear and progressive carceral history. Instead, it places the war years in the broader context of imprisonment in 19th-century America and contends that officers in charge of military prisons drew on practices that existed in civilian penitentiaries.

"Refusing to excerpt the Civil War from the long history of the nineteenth century, Zombek's book is the first to situate the conflict's military prisons in the larger carceral history of the early republic"—The North Carolina Historical Review

"The depth of Zombek's research on each facility is exhaustive and impressive. She has consulted a trove of official war records, state congressional records, annual reports, prison registers, family papers, personal memoirs, and over one hundred newspapers to describe the histories, policies, personnel, and daily life of prisoners at each location. She organizes her work thematically to assist her comparative analysis of regulations, prison life, communication, and power dynamics at both penitentiaries and military prisons. This well-written book offers fascinating new material for scholars interested in antebellum, carceral, military, and social history." — Indiana Magazine of History

Angela M. Zombek is assistant professor of history at St. Petersburg College in Clearwater, Florida. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on imprisonmentin the Civil War era, including "Paternalism and Imprisonment at Castle Thunder: Reinforcing Gender Norms in the Confederate Capital," in Civil War History (September 2017). She is currently working on a book on Key West under martial law during the Civil War.

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ISBN 13	9781606353554
ISBN 10	1606353551
Title	Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons
Author	Angela M Zombek
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Kent State University Press
Year published	2018-07-30
Number of pages	224
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