Colonial and Post-Colonial Incarceration

Author: Harper, Graeme, Harper, Graeme

Humanities

Published on 27 December 2001 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.).

Paperback / softback | 280 pages, black & white illustrations
234 x 156 | 440g

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 arenas from Europe to Asia, Australia, northern and southern Africa and North America.