American Purgatory Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration by Benjamin D Weber

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American Purgatory Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration by Benjamin D Weber | 18.46 MB
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Title: American Purgatory
Author: Benjamin D. Weber
Year: 2023​



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A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian
"American Purgatory will forever change how we understand the rise of mass incarceration. It will forever change how we understand this country." -Clint Smith, bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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 deliberate use of prisons to control restive, subject...

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