Torture and the Twilight of Empire : : From Algiers to Baghdad / / Marnia Lazreg.
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Lazreg, Marnia, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Torture and the Twilight of Empire : From Algiers to Baghdad / Marnia Lazreg. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016] ©2007 1 online resource (368 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity ; 26 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Imperial Politics and Torture -- Chapter 1. Revolutionary-War Theory -- Chapter 2. Militarization of the Colonial State -- Chapter 3. Psychological Action -- Chapter 4. Models of Pacification: From Nietzsche to Sun Tzu -- Part II: Ethnography of Torture -- Chapter 5. Doing Torture -- Chapter 6. Women: Between Torture and Military Feminism -- Part III: Ideology of Torture -- Chapter 7. Conscience, Imperial Identity, and Torture -- Chapter 8. The Christian Church and Antisubversive War -- Chapter 9. Fanon, Sartre, and Camus -- Part IV: Reflections on Torture -- Chapter 10. Moralizing Torture -- Chapter 11 Repetitions: From Algiers to Baghdad -- Notes -- Glossary -- References and Selected Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is nothing less than an anatomy of torture--its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. Drawing extensively from archives, confessions by former torturers, interviews with former soldiers, and war diaries, as well as writings by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and others, Lazreg argues that occupying nations justify their systematic use of torture as a regrettable but necessary means of saving Western civilization from those who challenge their rule. She shows how torture was central to guerre révolutionnaire, a French theory of modern warfare that called for total war against the subject population and which informed a pacification strategy founded on brutal psychological techniques borrowed from totalitarian movements. Lazreg seeks to understand torture's impact on the Algerian population--especially women--and also on the French troops who became their torturers. She explores the roles Christianity and Islam played in rationalizing these acts, and the ways in which torture became not only routine but even acceptable. Written by a preeminent historical sociologist, Torture and the Twilight of Empire holds particularly disturbing lessons for us today as we carry out the War on Terror. 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 29. Jul 2021) Iraq War, 2003-2011 Atrocities. Torture Algeria History 20th century. Torture. HISTORY / Europe / France. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015 9783110638721 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691131351 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400883813 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400883813 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400883813.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Imperial Politics and Torture -- Chapter 1. Revolutionary-War Theory -- Chapter 2. Militarization of the Colonial State -- Chapter 3. Psychological Action -- Chapter 4. Models of Pacification: From Nietzsche to Sun Tzu -- Part II: Ethnography of Torture -- Chapter 5. Doing Torture -- Chapter 6. Women: Between Torture and Military Feminism -- Part III: Ideology of Torture -- Chapter 7. Conscience, Imperial Identity, and Torture -- Chapter 8. The Christian Church and Antisubversive War -- Chapter 9. Fanon, Sartre, and Camus -- Part IV: Reflections on Torture -- Chapter 10. Moralizing Torture -- Chapter 11 Repetitions: From Algiers to Baghdad -- Notes -- Glossary -- References and Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Imperial Politics and Torture -- Chapter 1. Revolutionary-War Theory -- Chapter 2. Militarization of the Colonial State -- Chapter 3. Psychological Action -- Chapter 4. Models of Pacification: From Nietzsche to Sun Tzu -- Part II: Ethnography of Torture -- Chapter 5. Doing Torture -- Chapter 6. Women: Between Torture and Military Feminism -- Part III: Ideology of Torture -- Chapter 7. Conscience, Imperial Identity, and Torture -- Chapter 8. The Christian Church and Antisubversive War -- Chapter 9. Fanon, Sartre, and Camus -- Part IV: Reflections on Torture -- Chapter 10. Moralizing Torture -- Chapter 11 Repetitions: From Algiers to Baghdad -- Notes -- Glossary -- References and Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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