Torture and the twilight of empire
Subtitle: from Algiers to Baghdad
By: Marnia Lazreg
Series: Human rights and crimes against humanity
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780691131351
Subjects: Abu Ghraib Prison; Torture -- Algeria -- History -- 20th century; Iraq War, 2003- -- Atrocities; Torture; Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 -- Atrocities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-322) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Abbreviations; title: Imperial politics and torture; title: Revolutionary war theory; title: Militarization of the colonial state; title: Psychological action; title: Models of pacification; title: Ethnography of torture; title: Doing torture; title: Women: between torture and military feminism; title: Ideology of torture; title: Conscience, imperial identity, and torture; title: The Christian church and anti-subversive war; title: Sartre, Fanon, and Camus; title: Reflections on torture; title: Moralizing torture; title: Repetitions: from Algiers to Baghdad; title: Glossary; title: Bibliography; title: Index