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1 online resource (viii, 354 pages) |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
Discipline and the other body : humanitarianism, violence, and the colonial exception / Anupama Rao and Steven Pierce -- Defining and defiling the criminal body at the Cape of Good Hope : punishing the crime of suicide under Dutch East India Company rule, circa 1652-1795 / Kerry Ward -- The burden of Louis Congo and the evolution of savagery in colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy -- "Sinful propensities" : piracy, sodomy, and empire in the rhetoric of naval reform, 1770-1870 / Isaac Land -- The raj's other great game : policing the sexual frontiers of the Indian army in the first half of the nineteenth century / Douglas M. Peers -- Problems of violence, states of terror : torture in colonial India / Anupama Rao -- Punishment and the political body : flogging and colonialism in northern Nigeria / Steven Pierce -- Footbinding and anti-footbinding in China : the subject of pain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Dorothy Ko -- An economy of suffering : addressing the violence of discipline in railway workers' petitions to the agent of the East Indian Railway, 1930-47 / Laura Bear -- Spirit discipline : gender, Islam, and hierarchies of treatment in postcolonial northern Nigeria / Susan O'Brien -- Selections from Castaway / Yvette Christianse |
| Summary |
A comparative historical and ethnographic perspective on corporeal violence, the body's emergence as a political entity in colonial and postcolonial governance, and the production of a discourse of human rights |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-346) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Colonies -- Administration.
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Postcolonialism.
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Violence.
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Punishment.
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Human rights.
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Violence
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Human Rights
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postcolonialism.
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violence.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Colonies -- Administration
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Human rights
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Postcolonialism
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Punishment
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Violence
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Kolonialvolk
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Gewalt
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Postkolonialismus
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Kolonialverwaltung
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Strafe
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Einwohner
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Colonialism.
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Colonial administration.
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Corporal punishments.
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Violence.
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Colonies -- Administration.
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Postcolonialisme.
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Violence.
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Oppression.
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Peines.
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Droits de l'homme (droit international)
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Kolonier.
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Kroppsstraff.
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Postkolonialism.
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Mänskliga rättigheter.
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Våld.
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15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
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Colonies -- Administration.
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Postcolonialism.
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Violence.
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Punishment.
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Human rights.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pierce, Steven, 1968- editor.
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Rao, Anupama, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822387930 |
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082238793X |
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