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"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.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 304
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: Anniversary Collection
Publication Date:
29 October 1996
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780812215991
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights, civil rights, HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
"In the restrained prose of Torture lies a passionate message about the intentional violation of the bodies of human beings, in our time and in the past."
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.