Torture - An Expert''s Confrontation With an Everyday Evil

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "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 pr Zusammenfassung "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."-New York Times

Product details

• Authors: Henry Charles Lea, Manfred Nowak, Manfred Lea Nowak, Edward Peters, Peters Edward
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.1996
• EAN: 9780812215991
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1599-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous