Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
- xii, 335 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
- Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-322) and index.
Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Imperial politics and torture -- Revolutionary war theory -- Militarization of the colonial state -- Psychological action -- Models of pacification -- Ethnography of torture -- Doing torture -- Women: between torture and military feminism -- Ideology of torture -- Conscience, imperial identity, and torture -- The Christian church and anti-subversive war -- Sartre, Fanon, and Camus -- Reflections on torture -- Moralizing torture -- Repetitions: from Algiers to Baghdad -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Torture--Algeria--History--20th century. Iraq War, 2003-2011--Atrocities.