Description:
A useful and readable account of the ways in which the poor were regulated by the emergent disciplinary power of the modern state.--William and Mary Quarterly
Review Quotes: "Newman has ably probed the limited representations of the bodies of the poor in the public records-glimpses of lives otherwise unrecorded-and has given us a useful and readable account of the ways in which the poor were regulated by the emergent disciplinary power of the modern state, even as some poorer individuals were able in limited ways to resist that power."-- "William and Mary Quarterly"