Punishment in paradise race, slavery, human rights and a nineteenth-century Brazilian penal colony
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 --...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Durham u.a.
Duke Univ. Press
2015
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Zusammenfassung: | 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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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | XIV, 337 S. Kt. |
ISBN: | 9780822358169 978-0-8223-5816-9 9780822358305 978-0-8223-5830-5 9780822375890 978-0-8223-7589-0 |