Punishment in Paradise : Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beattie, Peter M., 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Duke University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Menschenrecht
Arbeitslager
Gefängnis
Prisons.
Prisoners.
HISTORY / Latin America / South America
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Prisonniers > Bresil > Fernando de Noronha.
Prisons > Bresil > Fernando de Noronha > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Prisoners > Brazil > Fernando de Noronha.
Prisons > Brazil > Fernando de Noronha > History > 19th century.
Brasilien
Brazil > Fernando de Noronha.
Fernando de Noronha (Bresil) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Fernando de Noronha (Brazil) > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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