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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buck, Pem Davidson (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New York : Monthly Review Press, [2019]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1f8864c