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Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers : Lessons from Life Outside the Law.
"It has long been held that humans need government to impose social order on a chaotic, dangerous world. How, then, did early humans survive on the Serengeti Plain, surrounded by faster, stronger, and bigger predators in a harsh and forbidding environment? Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers examine...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Herndon :
Potomac Books,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover ; Title page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; PART 1. HUMAN RULES; 1. What Is Our Nature? What Does Government Do for Us and to Us?; 2. Cooperation: Lepers and Pirates; 3. Punishment: Drop City and the Utopian Communes; 4. Justice: 1850s San Francisco and the California Gold Rush; 5. Injustice: The Batavia Shipwreck and the Attica Uprising; 6. Survival: The Inuits of King William Land and the Mutineers of Pitcairn Island; 7. Subversion: Prison Campsand Hellships; PART 2. MODERN LESSONS; 8. Credibility: America's Prohibition.
- 9. Excess: Committing Felony Murder While Asleep in Bed and Life in Prisonfor an Air- Conditioning Fraud10. Failure: Getting Away with Murder Beyond a Reasonable Doubt; 11. Collapse: Escobar's Colombia; 12. Taking Justice Seriously: Five Proposals; Postscript: What Are TheyDoing Now?; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.