A major interdisciplinary study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in Am...

In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links be...

A major interdisciplinary study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in Am...

In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links be...

Predictions about the world have the power to grip whole societies, and shape the actions of many...

This book responds to the frequently heard call for more comparative history .It does so by focus...