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Torture: Edward Peters

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.Edition: Expanded editionDescription: x, 291 p.: 22 cmISBN:
  • 0812215990 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780812215991 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.8/1 20
LOC classification:
  • K5410.T6 PET
Contents:
Introduction: Torture - Past and Present - and the Historian -- 1. A Delicate and Dangerous Business -- 2. The Queen of Proofs and the Queen of Torments -- 3. The Sleep of Reason -- 4. 'Engines of the State, not of Law' -- 5. 'To become, or to remain, human...' -- Bibliographical Addendum: Torture - History and Practice, 1985-1995 -- Appendix. Judicial Torture - Documents and Commentary.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-209) and index.

Introduction: Torture - Past and Present - and the Historian -- 1. A Delicate and Dangerous Business -- 2. The Queen of Proofs and the Queen of Torments -- 3. The Sleep of Reason -- 4. 'Engines of the State, not of Law' -- 5. 'To become, or to remain, human...' -- Bibliographical Addendum: Torture - History and Practice, 1985-1995 -- Appendix. Judicial Torture - Documents and Commentary.

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