Beattie Punishment in Paradise

Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7589-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beattie, Peter M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Fernando de Noronha Island: Foil, Paradox, Paradise, or Inferno? 1. Getting to Know “Fernando” 2. “The Key to the Americas”? 3. Fernando de Noronha’s “Dark Twins”: Licit and Illicit Commerce 4. “Brothers of the Peak”: Prosopography of a Penal Community 5. The Jealous Institution and Brazilian Penology 6. “A Stench in the Nostrils of God”? The Material and Social Life of Exile 7. Crime, Conflict, Corruption, and Cooperation on an Atlantic Frontier 8. The Treatment and Categorization of Slave Convicts in a Penal Archipelago 9. Of Captivity and Incarceration: Human Rights Reformin Atlantic Perspective Conclusion: Punishment in Paradise Foiled Again Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter M. Beattie is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. He is the author of The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil 1864-1945, also published by Duke University Press, and he has served as coeditor of the Luso Brazilian Review for the areas of history and social science since 2004.