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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2007.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 849 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 781-818) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0691143331 9780691143330 1282263722 9781282263727 9786612263729 6612263725 1400830877 9781400830879 |