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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."--B

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 c

"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 eve

Pulitzer Prize Finalist Silver Gavel Award Finalist “A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms s