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.
An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/10/1996
"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.
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.
- ISBN:
- 9780812215991
- 9780812215991
- Category:
- General & world history
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 29-10-1996
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Edition:
- 2nd Edition
- Pages:
- 304
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x17mm
- Weight:
- 0.39kg
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