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Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Dikotter
Underlines that - like other institutions - prisons was never simply 'imposed' by colonial powers or 'copied' by elites eager to emulate the West, but was reinvented and transformed by a host of local factors. This work point out the acts of resistance or appropriation which altered the social practices associated with confinement.
336 pages, Illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 27, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9781850658450 |
| Publishers | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 168 × 246 × 28 mm · 706 g |
| Editor | Brown, Ian |
| Editor | Dikotter, Frank |
