Format:
XXIII, 849 S.
,
graph. Darst.
Edition:
1. paperback printing
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [s.l.] MyiLibrary 2011 Online-Ressource MyiLibrary
ISBN:
9780691143330
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0691143331
Content:
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 East, and the new democracies of Latin America and Europe. As Rejali traces the development and application of one torture technique after another in these settings, he reaches startling conclusions. As the twentieth century progressed, he argues, democracies not only tortured, but set the international pace for torture. Dictatorships may have tortured more, and more indiscriminately, but the United States, Britain, and France pioneered and exported techniques that have become the lingua franca of modern torture: methods that leave no marks. Under the watchful eyes of reporters and human rights activists, low-level authorities in the world's oldest democracies were the first to learn that to scar a victim was to advertise iniquity and invite scandal. Long before the CIA even existed, police and soldiers turned instead to "clean" techniques, such as torture by electricity, ice, water, noise, drugs, and stress positions. As democracy and human rights spread after World War II, so too did these methods. Rejali makes this troubling case in fluid, arresting prose and on the basis of unprecedented research--conducted in multiple languages and on several continents--begun years before most of us had ever heard of Osama bin Laden or Abu Ghraib. The author of a major study of Iranian torture, Rejali also tackles the controversial question of whether torture really works, answering the new apologists for
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Historical Claims -- Puzzles and Cautions -- The Priority of Public Monitoring -- Variations among States -- Variations within States -- National Styles of Stealth Torture -- Torture and Democracy -- Does Torture Work? -- Who Cares? -- I: Torture and Democracy -- 1 Modern Torture and Its Observers -- Defining Torture -- Monitoring Torture -- 2 Torture and Democracy -- The National Security Model -- The Juridical Model -- The Civic Discipline Model -- Hell Is in the Details -- II: Remembering Stalinism and Nazism -- Introduction -- 3 Lights, Heat, and Sweat -- Sweating and Stealth in America -- British Psychological Techniques -- Interrogation Elsewhere in Europe -- Sweating and Stealth in Russia -- The Spread of the Russian Style -- Remembering Pavlov -- 4 Whips and Water -- Labussière's List -- Documenting Nazi Torture -- Torture in Germany -- Torture in Nazi-Occupied Europe -- Remembering the War -- 5 Bathtubs -- Masuy's Bathtub -- Marty's Magneto -- The French Gestapo and Electric Torture -- The Decline of Sweating and Stealth -- The German Gestapo and Modern Torture -- Remembering Nuremberg -- The Search for Electric Torture -- III: A History of Electric Stealth -- 6 Shock -- The AC/DC Controversy and the Electric Chair -- The Mystery of Electric Death -- Early Police Devices -- The Mystery of Shock -- Early Medical Devices -- Transmitting Shock -- Later Medical Devices -- Remembering the Animals -- 7 Magnetos -- What Is a Magneto? -- Indochina, 1931 -- Out of Indochina -- Korea, 1931 -- Out of Korea -- The Lost History of the Magneto -- French and British Electrotorture after World War II -- The Colonial Police and Wuillaume's List -- The Triumph of the Gégène -- Algeria, 1960 -- Remembering the Gestapo -- 8 Currents -- South Vietnamese Torture -- Vietnam, 1968.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9786612263729
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400830879
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691143330
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Rejali, Darius M., 1959 - Torture and democracy Princeton, N.J. [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2009 ISBN 9780691143330
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691143331
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691114224
Additional Edition:
Druckausg.: Torture and democracy
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Folter
;
Demokratie
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