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Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire : Microcosms of Modernity / by Schull, Kent F.

Table of Contents: “…Ottoman criminal justice and the transformation of Islamic criminal law and punishment in the age of modernity, 1839-1922 -- Prison reform in the late Ottoman Empire : the state's perspectives -- Counting the incarcerated : knowledge, power and the prison population -- The spatialisation of incarceration : reforms, response and the reality of prison life -- Disciplining the disciplinarians : combating corruption and abuse through the professionalisation of the prison cadre -- Creating juvenile delinquents : redefining childhood in the late Ottoman Empire.…”
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Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers : Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767–1856 / by Kessell, John L.

Table of Contents: “…A Quarrel Among Friars, 1795-1808; 9. "Corruption Has Come Among Us," 1808-20; 10. A Trampled Guarantee, 1820-28; 11. …”
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Policemen of the Tsar : Local Police in an Age of Upheaval / by Abbott, Robert J. (Robert James), 1945-

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On Civic Republicanism : Ancient Lessons for Global Politics /

Table of Contents: “…Balot -- 8. Montesquieu on corruption : civic purity in a post-republican world / Robert Sparling -- 9. …”
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Material Fantasies : Expectations of the Western Consumer World among East Germans / by Veenis, Milena

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The Vanguard of the Atlantic World : Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America / by Sanders, James E., 1971-

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Mobilizing the Metropolis : How the Port Authority Built New York / by Plotch, Philip Mark, 1961-, Nelles, Jen, 1979-

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