McBride, Keally D. <br/><br/>
Punishment and political order  [electronic resource] / 
Keally McBride. 
 - Ann Arbor :  University of Michigan Press,  c2007. 
 - x, 194 p. 
 - Law, meaning, and violence .
 - Law, meaning, and violence. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-187) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Strange brew - punishment and political ideals -- The whip of utopia : on punishment and political vision -- "Man's life is but a prison" : human reason, secular political order, and the punishments of God -- Earthly divinity : punishment and the requirements of sovereignty -- Severing the sanguinary empire : punishment and early American democratic idealism -- Punishment in liberal regimes -- Hitched to the post : prison labor, choice, and citizenship -- Punishment and the spiral of disorder. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Punishment--Philosophy.<br/>Punishment--Government policy.<br/>Social control.<br/>Sovereignty.<br/>Punishment--Government policy--United States.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV7419  / .M398 2007eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.601