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Whips to walls : naval discipline from flogging to Progressive-Era reform at Portsmouth Prison / Rodney K. Watterson ; foreword by Rear Adm. John D. Hutson, USN (Ret.).
- Title
- Whips to walls : naval discipline from flogging to Progressive-Era reform at Portsmouth Prison / Rodney K. Watterson ; foreword by Rear Adm. John D. Hutson, USN (Ret.).
- Author
- Watterson, Rodney K.
- Publication
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2014]
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- Additional Authors
- Hutson, John D.
- Description
- xii, 245 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
- Uniform Title
- New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology.
- Alternative Title
- Naval discipline from flogging to Progressive-Era reform at Portsmouth Prison
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- National prison reform (1790-1917) -- The end of flogging (1850-62) -- Shipboard punishments post flogging (1862-88) -- Origins of the naval prison system (1870-88) -- Makeshift navel prisons (1888-1908) -- The Navy finally gets a real prison (1908-14) -- The naval prison system matures (1914-17) -- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels (1912-20) -- Osborne prior to Portsmouth (1859-1917) -- Reform comes to Portsmouth -- Reform struggles at Portsmouth -- What's going on at Portsmouth Prison? -- Investigation into conditions at Portsmouth Prison -- Osborne's results at Portsmouth -- Portsmouth post Osborne -- Osborne post Portsmouth.
- ISBN
- 9781612514451 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1612514456 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781612514468 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013042408
- OCLC
- 859385302
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library