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Torture: An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil

Torture: An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil - Paperback

by Edward Peters
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Availability:In StockContributor:Edward PetersSeries:Anniversary CollectionPublish date:1996-10-29Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812215991ISBN-10:812215990UPC:9780812215991Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:World, Penology, RussiaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCPVT5RAFC

"Torture has ceased to exist," Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in 1874. Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of every three countries. This book is about torture in Western society from earliest times to the present.

A landmark study since its original publication a decade ago, Torture is now available in an expanded and updated paperback edition. Included for the first time is a broad and disturbing selection of documents charting the historical practice of torture from the ancient Romans to the Khmer Rouge.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812215991ISBN-10:812215990UPC:9780812215991Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:World, Penology, RussiaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCPVT5RAFC
Edward Peters is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Magician, the Witch, and the Law, Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe, The First Crusade, and, with Alan C. Kors, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History, all available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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