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 -- The...

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1. Verfasser: Beattie, Peter M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Durham, London Duke University Press 2015
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Prisons > History > Prisoners > Brazil > Fernando de Noronha (Brazil) > 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.
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 (pages 301-325) and index
Beschreibung:xiv, 337 Seiten
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ISBN:9780822358169
978-0-8223-5816-9
9780822358305
978-0-8223-5830-5
9780822375890