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Torture and State Violence in the United States is a very useful bit of research, bringing together many resources that readers would require hours or days to assemble on their own. -- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database [Pallitto] tries to demonstrate that the cruelty manifest in American state violence-the genus of which torture is a species-has been a constant in the 400 years of American history. Choice

Table of Contents

List of Documents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Colonial North America and the Early Republic
2. Slavery and the Frontier
3. Imperialism, Jim Crow, and World War
4. The Cold War, Vietnam, and Torture by the Police
5. The War on Terror
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 27/12/2011
      ISBN13: 9781421402499, 978-1421402499
      ISBN10: 1421402491
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      Constitution: government and the state

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      S.

      Trade Review
      Torture and State Violence in the United States is a very useful bit of research, bringing together many resources that readers would require hours or days to assemble on their own. -- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database [Pallitto] tries to demonstrate that the cruelty manifest in American state violence-the genus of which torture is a species-has been a constant in the 400 years of American history. Choice

      Table of Contents

      List of Documents
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      1. Colonial North America and the Early Republic
      2. Slavery and the Frontier
      3. Imperialism, Jim Crow, and World War
      4. The Cold War, Vietnam, and Torture by the Police
      5. The War on Terror
      Conclusion
      Bibliography
      Index

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