Description
Torture has ceased to exist, Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in 1874. Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of every three countries. This book is about torture in Western society from earliest times to the present.
A landmark study since its original publication a decade ago, Torture is now available in an expanded and updated paperback edition. Included for the first time is a broad and disturbing selection of documents charting the historical practice of torture from the ancient Romans to the Khmer Rouge.Author: Manfred Nowak, Henry Charles Lea, Edward Peters
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 10/29/1996
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780812215991
ISBN10: 0812215990
BISAC Categories:
- History | World | General
- Social Science | Penology
- History | Russia & the Former Soviet Union
About the Author
Edward Peters is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Magician, the Witch, and the Law, Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe, The First Crusade, and, with Alan C. Kors, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History, all available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.