Punishment in paradise : race, slavery, human rights, and a nineteenth-century Brazilian penal colony /
Peter M. Beattie provides a detailed examination of the nineteenth-century Brazilian island penal colony Fernando de Noronha, in which he shows how it serves as a metaphor for Brazilian society and was key to Brazil's abolishment of slavery.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham ; London :
Duke University Press,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fernando de Noronha Island: foil, paradox, paradise, or inferno?
- Getting to know "Fernando"
- "The key to the Americas?"
- Fernando de Noronha's "dark twins": licit and illicit commerce
- "Brothers of the peak": prosopography of a penal community
- The jealous institution and Brazilian penology
- "A stench in the nostrils of god?". The material and social life of exile
- Crime, conflict, corruption, and cooperation on an Atlantic frontier
- The treatment and categorization of slave convicts in a penal archipelago
- Of captivity and incarceration: human rights reform in Atlantic perspective
- Punishment in paradise foiled again.