The most wide-ranging study ever published of political violence and the punishment of Irish political prisoners from 1848 to the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922.
A study of the English prison system with broad-based emphasis on the shaping of government policies, the workings of the government itself and state formation. It traces the shift from a rural/aristocratic base to one that is urban/democratic and details the rise of the elite of the civil service.
