Punishment in Paradise

Beattie Peter M. Beattie

Description

Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century Brazil's varied social and cultural values, especially in relation to justice, class, color, civil condition, human rights and labor. As Brazil's slave population declined after 1850, the use of colonial-era disciplinary practices at Noronha-such as flogging and forced labor-stoked anxieties about human rights and Brazil's international image. Beattie contends that the treatment of slaves, convicts, and other social categories subject to coercive labor extraction were interconnected and that reforms that benefitted one of these categories made them harder to deny to others. In detailing Noronha's history and the end of slavery as part of an international expansion of human rights, Beattie places Brazil firmly in the purview of Atlantic history.

Sujets

• Histoire
• América del Sur
• South America
• History of the Americas
• Brazil

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 20 avril 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822375890
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Duke University Press Durham and London 2015

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Çôé à: éàô é Nôôà ïŝà, 2008. ôô  Bûô Bàé. © Bûô Bàé  Màû ôôŝ.

ï éçàé ŝ ôô ô  é, erica melissa windler beattie Ā ô  ŝô, aodhan windler beattie Hé ô ŝôûŝ ôŝ éŝôŝé ô  éééàô.

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Ā Pôjéç Hé éé ô éééàé  [Qûçàŝ Bôà], é  àç ô ô à à éŝéç ô ŝ éŝô àŝ I  éà. ï [Báŝ Çûàŝ] àŝ ŝà ô é à çôôàé éé, ôé ô ûT, ô ààô ô ŝé.

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acknowledgments

introduction:éàôéNôôàïŝà: ô, ààôX, ààŝé, ô ïéô?

1. Gé ô Kô “éàô”

2. “Hé Ké ô é Āéçàŝ”?

3. éàô é Nôôà’ŝ “Dà ŝ”: ç à ïç Çôéçé

4. “Bôéŝ ô é éà”: ôŝôôà ô à éà Çôû

5. Hé éàôûŝ ïŝûô à Bàzà éôô

6. “Ā Séç  é Nôŝŝ ô Gô”? Hé Màéà à Sôçà é ô EXé

7. Çé, ÇôLç, Çôûô, à Çôôéàô ô à Āàç ôé

8. Hé éàé à Çàéôzàô ô Sàé Çôçŝ  à éà Āçéàô

9. O Çà à ïçàçéàô: ûà Rŝ Réô  Āàç éŝéçé

conclusion: ûŝé  ààŝé ôé Āà

appendix: Sàŝçà àéŝ abbreviations notes bibliography index