Punishment in World History

ISBN-13: 9781032547374 / Angielski

Peter N. Stearns

Opis

This book focuses on major changes in punishment patterns during the principal phases of world history, tracing continuities, reforms, and regional differences.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1: Early Human Societies  2. Punishment in Hunting and Gathering Societies  3. Early Civilizations and a Transformation of Punishment  Part 2: The Classical and Postclassical Periods  4. The Classical Societies  5. The Postclassical Period and the Role of Religion  Part 3: The Early Modern Period, 1450-1800  6. The Empires of Asia and Eastern Europe  7. New Prisons and New Ideas in Western Europe  8. Punishment in the New European Colonies  Part 4: The Nineteenth Century  9. An Age of Reform and Its Limitations: Western Europe and Beyond  10. Reform Efforts in Asia, Russia, and Latin America  11. Punishment in the New Empires: From the 19th Century to the Mid-1950s  Part 5: The Contemporary Period  12. Major Changes  13. Regional Patterns in the Contemporary Period  14. Conclusion

O autorze

Peter N. Stearns is University Professor of History at George Mason University. He has written widely in the fields of world history and the history of emotion, with recent books on Human Rights in World History (rev. ed.) and Happiness in World History.