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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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Lincoln, Nebraska] :
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What Is Our Nature? What Does Government Do for Us and to Us?
- Cooperation : Lepers and Pirates
- Punishment : Drop City and the Utopian Communes
- Justice : 1850s San Francisco and the California Gold Rush
- Injustice : The Batavia Shipwreck and the Attica Uprising
- Survival : The Inuits of King William Land and the Mutineers of Pitcairn Island
- Subversion : Prison Camps and Hellships
- Credibility : America' s Prohibition
- Excess : Committing Felony Murder While Asleep in Bed and Life in Prison for an Air-Conditioning Fraud
- Failure : Getting Away with Murder Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
- Collapse : Escobar's Colombia
- Taking Justice Seriously : Five Proposals
- Postscript : What Are They Doing Now?