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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beattie, Peter M., 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.