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Torture: An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Release: October 29, 1996

ISBN: 0812215990

ISBN 13: 9780812215991

Torture: An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil

0/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Release: October 29, 1996

ISBN: 0812215990

ISBN 13: 9780812215991

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