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010 $a 2007014846
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020 $a9780691131351 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aHV8599.A4$bL39 2008
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100 1 $aLazreg, Marnia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94015788
245 10 $aTorture and the twilight of empire :$bfrom Algiers to Baghdad /$cMarnia Lazreg.
260 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axii, 335 pages :$bmaps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aHuman rights and crimes against humanity
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-322) and index.
505 00 $gPt. I.$tImperial Politics and Torture --$gCh. 1.$tRevolutionary-War Theory --$gCh. 2.$tMilitarization of the Colonial State --$gCh. 3.$tPsychological Action --$gCh. 4.$tModels of Pacification: From Nietzsche to Sun Tzu --$gPt. II.$tEthnography of Torture --$gCh. 5.$tDoing Torture --$gCh. 6.$tWomen: Between Torture and Military Feminism --$gPt. III.$tIdeology of Torture --$gCh. 7.$tConscience, Imperial Identity, and Torture --$gCh. 8.$tThe Christian Church and Antisubversive War --$gCh. 9.$tFanon, Sartre, and Camus --$gPt. IV.$tReflections on Torture --$gCh. 10.$tMoralizing Torture --$gCh. 11.$tRepetitions: From Algiers to Baghdad.
520 1 $a"Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war of 1954-1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghanistan." "This book is nothing less than an anatomy of torture - its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. Drawing extensively from archives, confessions by former torturers, interviews with former soldiers, and war diaries, as well as writings by Jean Paul-Sartre, Alber Camus, and others, Lazreg argues that occupying nations justify their systematic use of torture as a regrettable but necessary means of saving Western civilization from those who challenge their rule. She shows how torture was central to guerre revolutionnaire, a French theory of modern warfare that called for total war against the subject population and which informed a pacification strategy founded on brutal psychological techniques borrowed from totalitarian movements. Lazreg seeks to understand torture's impact on the Algerian population - especially women - and also on the French troops who became their torturers. She explores the roles Christianity and Islam played in rationalizing these acts, and the ways in which torture became not only routine but even acceptable."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aTorture$zAlgeria$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aAlgeria$xHistory$yRevolution, 1954-1962$xAtrocities.
610 20 $aAbu Ghraib Prison.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004074639
650 0 $aIraq War, 2003-2011$xAtrocities.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009005693
650 0 $aTorture.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85136190
830 0 $aHuman rights and crimes against humanity.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007015796
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007014846.html
852 00 $bbar$hHV8599.A4$iL39 2008
852 00 $bmil$hHV8599.A4$iL39 2008