Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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 |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-325) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Prisons -- Brazil -- Fernando de Noronha -- History -- 19th century
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Prisoners -- Brazil -- Fernando de Noronha
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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Prisoners
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Prisons
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Gefängnis
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Arbeitslager
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Menschenrecht
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SUBJECT |
Fernando de Noronha (Brazil) -- History -- 19th century
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Subject |
Brazil -- Fernando de Noronha
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Brasilien
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2014034850 |
ISBN |
9780822375890 |
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0822375893 |
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