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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beattie, Peter M., 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--Brazil--Fernando de Noronha--History--19th century.

Prisons.

Prisoners--Brazil--Fernando de Noronha.

Prisoners.

Fernando de Noronha (Brazil)--History--19th century.

Fernando de Noronha (Brazil).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Beattie, Peter M., 1963- Punishment in paradise.

ISBN:

9780822358305

0822358301

9780822375890

0822375893

OCLC:

899275614