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Rejali, Darius, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Torture and Democracy / Darius Rejali. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2007 1 online resource (880 p.) : 1 halftone. 9 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Torture and Democracy -- 1. Modern Torture and Its Observers -- 2. Torture and Democracy -- II. Remembering Stalinism and Nazism -- INTRODUCTION TO PART II -- 3. Lights, Heat, and Sweat -- 4. Whips and Water -- 5. Bathtubs -- III. A History of Electric Stealth -- 6. Shock -- 7. Magnetos -- 8. Currents -- 9. Singing the World Electric -- 10. Prods, Tasers, and Stun Guns -- 11. Stun City -- IV. Other Stealth Traditions -- INTRODUCTION TO PART IV -- 12. Sticks and Bones -- 13. Water, Sleep, and Spice -- 14. Stress and Duress -- 15. Forced Standing and Other Positions -- 16. Fists and Exercises -- 17. Old and New Restraints -- 18. Noise -- 19. Drugs and Doctors -- V. Politics and Memory -- 20. Supply and Demand for Clean Torture -- 21. Does Torture Work? -- 22. What the Apologists Say -- 23. Why Governments Don't Learn -- 24. The Great Age of Torture in Modern Memory -- Appendixes -- A. A List of Clean Tortures -- B. Issues of Method -- C. Organization and Explanations -- D. A Note on Sources for American Torture during the Vietnam War -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish-American War to the fields of Vietnam, the wars of the Middle East, and the new democracies of Latin America and Europe. As Rejali traces the development and application of one torture technique after another in these settings, he reaches startling conclusions. As the twentieth century progressed, he argues, democracies not only tortured, but set the international pace for torture. Dictatorships may have tortured more, and more indiscriminately, but the United States, Britain, and France pioneered and exported techniques that have become the lingua franca of modern torture: methods that leave no marks. Under the watchful eyes of reporters and human rights activists, low-level authorities in the world's oldest democracies were the first to learn that to scar a victim was to advertise iniquity and invite scandal. Long before the CIA even existed, police and soldiers turned instead to "clean" techniques, such as torture by electricity, ice, water, noise, drugs, and stress positions. As democracy and human rights spread after World War II, so too did these methods. Rejali makes this troubling case in fluid, arresting prose and on the basis of unprecedented research--conducted in multiple languages and on several continents--begun years before most of us had ever heard of Osama bin Laden or Abu Ghraib. The author of a major study of Iranian torture, Rejali also tackles the controversial question of whether torture really works, answering the new apologists for torture point by point. A brave and disturbing book, this is the benchmark against which all future studies of modern torture will be measured. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Torture Government policy. Torture. POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691143330 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400830879 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400830879 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400830879.jpg |
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