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Torture and democracy /

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 electrot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rejali, Darius M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxiii, 849 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 781-818) and index.
ISBN:0691143331
9780691143330
1282263722
9781282263727
9786612263729
6612263725
1400830877
9781400830879