Torture and Democracy

by Darius M. Rejali

Book Overview

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 electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish-American War to the fields of Vietnam, the wars of the Middle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691114226
• ISBN13: 9780691114224
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 880 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"