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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Autor principal: Beattie, Peter M. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Durham London Duke University Press 2015
En:Año: 2015
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Palabras clave:
Fernando de Noronha > Strafkolonie > Geschichte
Fernando de Noronha (Brazil) > History > 19th century
Prisoners > Brazil > Fernando de Noronha
Prisons > Brazil > Fernando de Noronha > History > 19th century
Prisons > History > 19th century > Brazil > Fernando de Noronha
Publicación relacionada:Erscheint auch als: 1655468251
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Sumario: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
Notas:Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-325) and index
Descripción Física:xiv, 337 Seiten Illustrationen, Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780822358169
9780822358305