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Torture and the twilight of empire : from Algiers to Baghdad /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lazreg, Marnia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]
Series:Human rights and crimes against humanity.
Subjects:
Torture > Algeria > History > 20th century.
Algeria > History > Revolution, 1954-1962 > Atrocities.
Abu Ghraib Prison.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Atrocities.
Torture.
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.