ISBN:
9781583678336
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1583678336
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9781583678329
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1583678328
Language:
English
Pages:
438 Seiten
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23 cm
Parallel Title:
Online version Buck, Pem Davidson The punishment monopoly
DDC:
306.09
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Bibliography Seite 397-428
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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
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