Civilizing torture : an American tradition /
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| Language: | English |
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2018
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A question of civilization -- The manners of barbarians -- Discipline in a young democracy -- Cruelty and the paradox of slave property -- Torture in the brothers' war -- Imperialist excesses -- Police station trespasses -- Cold War brutality -- The enemy within.