Punishment in paradise : race, slavery, human rights and a nineteenth-century Brazilian penal colony

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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1. Verfasser: Beattie, Peter M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Durham u.a. Duke University Press 2015
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Fernando de Noronha (Brazil) / History / 19th century > Prisons / History / 19th century / Brazil / Fernando de Noronha > Prisoners / Brazil / Fernando de Noronha > Fernando de Noronha > Strafkolonie > Geschichte
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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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIV, 337 S.
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ISBN:9780822358169
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