American Purgatory av Benjamin D. Weber

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<p><strong>A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian</strong></p><p><b>“</b><em><b>American Purgatory</b></em><b> 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 </b><em><b>How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America<br></b></em><span><b><i><br></i></b>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.<br></span><span><br>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, </span><i>American Purgatory</i><span> reveals how “prison imperialism&#822