| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 849 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Modern torture and its observers -- Torture and democracy -- Lights, heat, and sweat -- Whips and water -- Bathtubs -- Shock -- Magnetos -- Currents -- Singing the world electric -- Prods, tasers, and stun guns -- Stun city -- Sticks and bones -- Water, sleep, and spice -- Stress and duress -- Forced standing and other positions -- Fists and exercises -- Old and new restraints -- Noise -- Drugs and doctors -- Supply and demand for clean torture -- Does torture work? -- What the apologists say -- Why governments don't learn -- The great age of torture in modern memory |
| Summary |
This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish-American War to the fields of Vietnam, the wars of the Middle East, and the new democracies of Latin America and Europe. As Rejali traces the development and application of one torture technique a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 781-818) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Torture.
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Torture -- Government policy
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Torture
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torturing.
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Torture.
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Torture -- Government policy.
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Demokratie
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Folter
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Martelen.
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Overheidsbeleid.
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Democratie.
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Tortyr.
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Demokrati.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0691143331 |
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9780691143330 |
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1282263722 |
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9781282263727 |
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9786612263729 |
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6612263725 |
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1400830877 |
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9781400830879 |
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