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Castles of Our Conscience: Social Control and the American State 1800 - 1985
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Castles of Our Conscience: Social Control and the American State 1800 - 1985 Hardcover - 1991

by William G. Staples

This is an ambitious integration of classical and poststructuralist social theory that demonstrates value of a state-centered approach towards welfare.


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  • Title Castles of Our Conscience: Social Control and the American State 1800 - 1985
  • Author William G. Staples
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First British Ed
  • Pages 197
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge, UK
  • Date 1991-01-08
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • ISBN 9780745606996 / 0745606997
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.42 x 0.8 in (23.57 x 16.31 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Social policy, Social service - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91154729
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.01

About the author

Bill Staples grew up on the south shore of Long Island, New York. He has been a commercial fisherman, taxicab driver, plumber's apprentice, and pizza maker. He studied sociology at the University of Oregon, the University of Southern California, and UCLA. Staples is currently the 2013-14 E. Jackson Baur Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Surveillance Studies Research Center at the University of Kansas. In addition to the first edition of EVERYDAY SURVEILLANCE his previous books include CASTLES OF OUR CONSCIENCE: SOCIAL CONTROL AND THE AMERICAN STATE, 1800-1985, a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, POWER, PROFITS, AND PATRIARCHY: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF WORK AT A BRITISH METAL TRADES FIRM, 1791-1922 (with C. L. Staples), an American Sociological Association Book Award winner as well as and the two-volume reference work, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRIVACY, also a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Cambridge/Oxford: Polity Press/Basil Blackwell, 1990. Hb, xii + 197pp. VG with clean contents in VG dj. Analyses the role of the modern state in the shaping of policies of social control in America. In two broad sections : Part 1 The denial of freedom in the new republic - social control and the American state 1800-1929; Part 2 Accumulating minds and bodies - social control and the American state 1930-1985.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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