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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מחבר ראשי: Buck, Pem Davidson (Author)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: New York : Monthly Review Press, [2019]
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1f8864c
תוכן הענינים:
  • 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.