Torture and state violence in the United States
Subtitle: a short documentary history
By: edited by Robert M. Pallitto
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781421402482; 9781421402499
Subjects: Government policy; Torture; History
Description: "Organized around five broad thematic periods in American history--colonial America and the early republic; slavery and the frontier; imperialism, Jim Crow, and World Wars I and II; the Cold War, Vietnam, and police torture; and the war on terror--this annotated documentary history traces the low and high points of official attitudes toward state violence."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonial North America and the early republic; title: Slavery and the Frontier; title: Imperialism, Jim Crow, and world war; title: The Cold War, Vietnam, and torture by the police.