Torture and State Violence in the United States: A Short Documentary History
By Unknown Author.
Description
The war on terror has brought to light troubling actions by the United States government which many claim amount to torture. But as this book shows, state-sanctioned violence and degrading, cruel, and unusual punishments have a long and contentious history in the nation. Organized around five broad thematic periods in American history―colonial America and the early republic; slavery and the frontier; imperialism, Jim Crow, and World Wars I and II; the Cold War, Vietnam, and police torture; and the war on terror―this annotated documentary history traces the low and high points of official at...
ISBN(s)
1421402491, 9781421402499
