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Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this explosive new book, historian Benjamin Weber reveals how the story of American prisons is inextricably linked to the expansion of American power around the globe.
A vivid work of hidden history that spans the wars to subjugate Native Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, the conquest of the western territories, and the creation of an American empire in Panama, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, American Purgatory reveals how “prison imperialism”—the...
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