Torture An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil

Name: Torture An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil
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ISBN: 9780812215991

ISBN-10: 0812215990

ISBN-13: 9780812215991

Edition: 2nd 1997

Authors: Edward Peters, Henry Charles Lea, Edward Peters

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"Torture has ceased to exist," Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in 1874. Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of every three countries. This book is about torture in Western society from earliest times to the present. A landmark study since its original publication a decade ago, Torture is now available in an expanded and updated paperback edition. Included for the first time is a broad and disturbing selection of documents charting the historical practice of torture from the ancient Romans to the Khmer Rouge.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 10/29/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface to the Expanded Edition


Editor's Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction Torture -- Past and Present -- and the Historian



A Delicate and Dangerous Business



The Queen of Proofs and the Queen of Torments



The Sleep of Reason



'Engines of the State, Not of Law'



'To Become, Or to Remain, Human ...'



A Bibliographical Essay


Bibliographical Addendum: Torture -- History and Practice, 1985-1995


Appendix: Judicial Torture -- Documents and Commentary


Index