Torture and the Twilight of Empire : : From Algiers to Baghdad / / Marnia Lazreg.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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