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02551aam a2200385 i 4500 001 BE364D144F2711EB9A63D65926ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210105012357 008 191024s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019049203 020 $a 1583678336 020 $a 9781583678336 020 $a 1583678328 020 $a 9781583678329 035 $a (OCoLC)1101652289 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d TXX $d YDX $d BKL $d UKMGB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV9950 B84 2019 100 1 $a Buck, Pem Davidson, $e author. 245 14 $a The Punishment monopoly : $b tales of my ancestors, dispossession, and the building of the United States / $c by Pem Davidson Buck. 264 1 $a New York : $b Monthly Review Press, $c [2019] 300 $a 438 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Tales of a mythical ancestor, punishment, and diarchy -- Ancestor tales of dispossession and a revolt of the unfree -- Ancestor tales of slavery, slaving, and women with voice -- Ancestor tales of the revolt that happened and one that didn't -- Ancestor tales of the logic of a slave society -- Ancestor tales of the birth of a slaving republic -- Ancestor tales of the dispossession of women, the domination of men, and the definition of liberty -- Ancestor tales of life in a capitalist slaving republic -- Tales of the present. 520 $a "Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming 'liberty and justice for all'? Using stories of her European ancestors, who arrived in colonial Virginia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and following their descendants into the early nineteenth century, Buck shows how struggles over the right to punish, backed by the growing power of the state governed by a white elite, made possible the dispossession of Africans, Native Americans, and poor whites"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Punishment $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Discrimination in criminal justice administration $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Slavery $z United States $x History. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Buck, Pem Davidson, $t The punishment monopoly $d New York : Monthly Review Press, [2019] $z 9781583678343 $w (DLC) 2019049204 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210304013005.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BE364D144F2711EB9A63D65926ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search