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Author:

Beattie, Peter M., 1963- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001028270

Title:

Punishment in paradise : race, slavery, human rights, and a nineteenth-century Brazilian penal colony / Peter M. Beattie.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiv, 337 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Prisons--Fernando de Noronha--Fernando de Noronha--History--19th century.
Prisoners--Fernando de Noronha.--Fernando de Noronha.
Fernando de Noronha (Brazil)--History--19th century.
Prisoners.
Prisons.
Brazil--Fernando de Noronha.
1800 - 1899
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-325) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : 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 -- Conclusion : Punishment in paradise foiled again.

ISBN:

0822358301
9780822358305
0822358166
9780822358169

OCLC:

(OCoLC)891369443

LCCN:

2014034850

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)