ISBN
9781606353554
Price
$45.00
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Abstract
Angela M. Zombek, an assistant professor of history at St. Petersburg College, Clearwater, offers a well-researched monograph examining the similarities between antebellum and Civil War penitentiaries and military prisons. Zombek’s comparative framework not only investigates parallels between these institutions in the early republican, antebellum, and Civil War eras, but she also assesses likenesses in regional northern and southern carceral institutions. In particular, Zombek focuses on both state penitentiaries and military prisons in Washington, D.C., Ohio, Virginia, Georgia, and North Carolina. While the rationale for the selection of these regions and institutions might be explained in more detail, Zombek’s targets are well selected because, as she explains, this focus does some heavy lifting in countering the northeastern bias present in much of the scholarship on nineteenth-century prison history.
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.21.2.16
Recommended Citation
Kamerling, Henry
(2019)
"Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons: Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 21
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Iss.
2
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.21.2.16
Available at:
https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol21/iss2/16
