Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad
Material type: TextSeries: Human Rights and Crimes against HumanityPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.Description: xii, 335 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780691173481
- HV8599.A4L39
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Books | Asian University for Women Library | Non-fiction | General Stacks | HV8599.A4L39 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 030617 |
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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