Browsing by Author "Finkelstein, Alexander"

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    • Prison Valley, U.S.A.: The Making of a Carceral Capital, 1861-1994 

      Finkelstein, Alexander (2022-05)
      The history of incarceration in Colorado from the birth of the territory in the 1860s through the 1990s is a history of continuity. Coloradans invoked the criminal legal system as a symbol of the state’s legitimate, effective ...

    • Road Power: The Politics of American Highway Development, 1900-1939 

      Finkelstein, Alexander (2018)
      Road Power uses the development of the American highway system to examine the foundations of the federal state. This thesis argues that the highway bureaucracy accrued power throughout the early twentieth century, providing ...