LEADER 04481nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910819683803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-26372-2 010 $a9786612263729 010 $a1-4008-3087-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400830879 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788398 035 $a(EBL)457889 035 $a(OCoLC)436943226 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000260291 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11194700 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000260291 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10191994 035 $a(PQKB)11084595 035 $a(OCoLC)647829416 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36539 035 $a(DE-B1597)446844 035 $a(OCoLC)979835072 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400830879 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457889 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10320494 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL226372 035 $a(iGPub)PUPB0000191 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457889 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788398 100 $a20070413d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTorture and democracy /$fDarius Rejali 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (874 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-11422-6 311 $a0-691-14333-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [781]-818) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Modern torture and its observers -- Torture and democracy -- Lights, heat, and sweat -- Whips and water -- Bathtubs -- Shock -- Magnetos -- Currents -- Singing the world electric -- Prods, tasers, and stun guns -- Stun city -- Sticks and bones -- Water, sleep, and spice -- Stress and duress -- Forced standing and other positions -- Fists and exercises -- Old and new restraints -- Noise -- Drugs and doctors -- Supply and demand for clean torture -- Does torture work? -- What the apologists say -- Why governments don't learn -- The great age of torture in modern memory. 330 $aThis is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish-American War to the fields of Vietnam, the wars of the Middle East, and the new democracies of Latin America and Europe. As Rejali traces the development and application of one torture technique after another in these settings, he reaches startling conclusions. As the twentieth century progressed, he argues, democracies not only tortured, but set the international pace for torture. Dictatorships may have tortured more, and more indiscriminately, but the United States, Britain, and France pioneered and exported techniques that have become the lingua franca of modern torture: methods that leave no marks. Under the watchful eyes of reporters and human rights activists, low-level authorities in the world's oldest democracies were the first to learn that to scar a victim was to advertise iniquity and invite scandal. Long before the CIA even existed, police and soldiers turned instead to "clean" techniques, such as torture by electricity, ice, water, noise, drugs, and stress positions. As democracy and human rights spread after World War II, so too did these methods. Rejali makes this troubling case in fluid, arresting prose and on the basis of unprecedented research--conducted in multiple languages and on several continents--begun years before most of us had ever heard of Osama bin Laden or Abu Ghraib. The author of a major study of Iranian torture, Rejali also tackles the controversial question of whether torture really works, answering the new apologists for torture point by point. A brave and disturbing book, this is the benchmark against which all future studies of modern torture will be measured. 606 $aTorture 606 $aTorture$xGovernment policy 615 0$aTorture. 615 0$aTorture$xGovernment policy. 676 $a364.6/7 700 $aRejali$b Darius M$01687653 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819683803321 996 $aTorture and democracy$94061286 997 $aUNINA