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Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition

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Availability:In StockContributor:W. Fitzhugh BrundagePublish date:2020-03-10Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Belknap PressISBN-13:9780674244702ISBN-10:674244702UPC:9780674244702Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Human Rights, PenologySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCJCRVFB6G

Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition

Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Silver Gavel Award Finalist

"A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms since before the United States was founded."
--Los Angeles Times

"That Americans as a people and a nation-state are violent is indisputable. That we are also torturers, domestically and internationally, is not so well established. The myth that...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Belknap PressISBN-13:9780674244702ISBN-10:674244702UPC:9780674244702Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Human Rights, PenologySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCJCRVFB6G
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh: - W. Fitzhugh Brundage is William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his present work on torture in American history. Brundage has written extensively on racial inequality and violence, from segregation to lynching.
Publisher: Belknap Press

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