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Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad
Marnia Lazreg
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Description for Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad
Paperback. Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HBA; 3JJP; 3JM; JKVP; JPVH; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 195 x 2. Weight in Grams: 556.
Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is nothing less than an anatomy of torture--its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. Drawing extensively from archives, confessions by former torturers, interviews with former soldiers, and war diaries, ... Read more
Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is nothing less than an anatomy of torture--its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. Drawing extensively from archives, confessions by former torturers, interviews with former soldiers, and war diaries, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691173481
SKU
V9780691173481
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About Marnia Lazreg
Marnia Lazreg is professor of sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question.
Reviews for Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad
In Torture and the Twilight of Empire, Marnia Lazreg draws resourcefully on military history and sociological and cultural analysis to explain how the French colonial state tried to forestall its own collapse by terrorizing the Algerian population in viciously creative ways. She provides a fascinating intellectual history of modern torture; an unflinching empirical account, or 'ethnography of torture.'
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