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Prison Diary of A C Barrington
- Dissent & Conformity in Wartime New Zealand
Engelsk
Bogcover for Prison Diary of A C Barrington af John Pratt, 9781927322314
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9781927322314
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1927322316
Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2016
Størrelse i cm:
29,3 x 20,3 x 1,5
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2016
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Prison Diary of A C Barrington

- Dissent & Conformity in Wartime New Zealand
Engelsk
Paperback 2016
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A C (Archie) Barrington was a leading New Zealand pacifist during World War II. Incarcerated in Mount Crawford Prison for his beliefs in 1941, he kept an illicit diary, scrawled in the margins of books. Many years later his son John happened across the diary and painstakingly reconstructed it. Such documents are exceptionally rare -- until recent times prisoners were not allowed to keep any record of their experiences and many were illiterate anyway. Barrington vividly and compellingly recorded the squalid, rundown conditions, monotonous and exhausting labour, the intense cold from which there was little protection, and the strategies he and his fellow pacifists adopted to enable them to cope with prison life. John Pratt has edited the diary and provides a fascinating commentary on the issues it raises in relation to prison life then and now. He also addresses a fundamental question: What were Barrington and his like doing in prison, when similar expressions of dissent would almost certainly have been ignored in Australia or Britain? Why was New Zealand, with its fair go'', egalitarian reputation, so intolerant and punitive? Pratt chronicles a history of intolerance, suspicion and deep-seated antipathies that may go some way towards explaining the current penal saturation in this friendly'' land.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9781927322314
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1927322316
Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2016
Størrelse i cm:
29,3 x 20,3 x 1,5
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2016
Forfatter(e):
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