Torture and Democracy / / Darius Rejali.
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 electrot...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (880 p.) :; 1 halftone. 9 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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