Torture: An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil

By Edward Peters

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812215990
• ISBN13: 9780812215991
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"