Torture and the twilight of empire : from Algiers to Baghdad /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Human rights and crimes against humanity.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Imperial politics and torture
- Revolutionary war theory
- Militarization of the colonial state
- Psychological action
- Models of pacification
- Ethnography of torture
- Doing torture
- Women: between torture and military feminism
- Ideology of torture
- Conscience, imperial identity, and torture
- The Christian church and anti-subversive war
- Sartre, Fanon, and Camus
- Reflections on torture
- Moralizing torture
- Repetitions: from Algiers to Baghdad
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.