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The punishment monopoly : tales of my ancestors, dispossession, and the building of the United States /
"Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming 'liberty and justice for all'? Using stories of her European ancestors, who arrived in colonial Virginia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and following the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming 'liberty and justice for all'? Using stories of her European ancestors, who arrived in colonial Virginia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and following their descendants into the early nineteenth century, Buck shows how struggles over the right to punish, backed by the growing power of the state governed by a white elite, made possible the dispossession of Africans, Native Americans, and poor whites"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1583678352 9781583678343 1583678344 9781583678350 |