Prisons and Punishment in Texas Culture, History and Museological Representation /

Prisons and Punishment in Texas Culture, History and Museological Representation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thurston, Hannah (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	IX, 249 p. 20 illus., 15 illus. in color. text
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:	1st ed. 2016.
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology,
Subjects:	Corrections. Punishment. Crime > Sociological aspects. Criminology. Culture. Ethnology > America. Cultural property. Prison and Punishment. Crime and Society. Criminology Theory. Sociology of Culture. American Culture. Cultural Heritage.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53308-1
Format:	Electronic eBook

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I. Setting the Scene for Museological Research
Chapter 1. The Significance of Stories in Museum Research
Chapter 2. Becoming a Texas Tourist
Chapter 3. Telling Tales About a 'Tough Texas'
Part II. Representing Punishment in the United States of America
Chapter 4. Emotionality and Cultural Stories of (In)justice
Chapter 5. The Cultural Life of Punishment in the Southern States
Chapter 6. Narrative Possibilities in Cultural Life Research
Part III. The Punishment Museums of the Lone Star State
Chapter 7. Museum Stories of a Distinctly Tough Texas
Chapter 8. Depicting Modern Punishment as Civilised Punishment
Chapter 9. A Narrative Journey Through Inmate Identities
Part IV. The Texan Self-Identity Past and Present
Chapter 10. 'Texanicity' and its Punishment Dimensions
Chapter 11. Texan Toughness and Lone Star Memories: The Alamo and the Old West
Chapter 12. Re-imaging Texas as a Place of Harsh Punishment
Epilogue.