This book examines the history of Canadian federal women's prisons, showing how the meaning and content of women's penal governance changes over time. The author argues that although there has been a series of distinct phases in the imprisonment of women, the prison system itsel…
"This is the first book to place Russia's 'long' eighteenth century squarely in its European context. The conceptual framework is set out in an opening critique of modernisation theory which, while rejecting its linear implications, maintains its focus on the relationship betwee…
"In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
