The punishment monopoly : tales of my ancestors, dispossession, and the building of the United States /
"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 the...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
[2019]
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1f8864c |
| 总结: | "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"-- |
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| 实物描述: | 1 online resource (1 volume) |
| 参考书目: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1583678352 9781583678343 1583678344 9781583678350 9781583678329 9781583678336 |