{"product_id":"no-bond-but-the-law-punishment-race-and-gender-in-jamaican-state-formation-17801870-9780822334019","title":"No Bond but the Law  Punishment Race and Gender","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author analyzes punishment as a way to explore the dynamic of state formation in a colonial society making the transition from slavery to freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNo Bond but the Law\u003c\/i\u003e is a model of research procedure and historical writing.”—Sidney Mintz, author of \u003ci\u003eSweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNo Bond but the Law\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most interesting and intellectually ambitious works of scholarship to be published in the field of slave and emancipation studies in recent years. Diana Paton has written a book that takes several important conceptual matters and historiographies—emancipation, punishment, gender, and state formation—and puts them together in a remarkably compelling and original way.”—Steven Hahn, author of \u003ci\u003eA Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Prison and Plantation 19\u003cbr\u003e Planters, Magistrates, and Apprentices 53\u003cbr\u003e The Treadmill and the Whip 83\u003cbr\u003e Penality and Politics in a “Free” Society 121\u003cbr\u003e Justice and the Jamaican People 156\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 191\u003cbr\u003e Notes 201\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 253\u003cbr\u003e Index 281","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406036541783,"sku":"9780822334019","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822334019.jpg?v=1730494324","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/no-bond-but-the-law-punishment-race-and-gender-in-jamaican-state-formation-17801870-9780822334019","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}