Description: Torture and the Twilight of Empire : From Algiers to Baghdad, Paperback by Lazreg, Marnia, ISBN 0691173486, ISBN-13 9780691173481, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French armys coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This book is nothing less than an anatomy of torture--its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. Drawing extensively from archives, confessions by former torturers, interviews with former soldiers, and war diaries, as well as writings by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and others, Lazreg argues that occupying nations justify their systematic use of torture as a regrettable but necessary means of saving Western civilization from those who challenge their rule. She shows how torture was central to guerre rvolutionnaire, a French theory of modern warfare that called for total war against the subject population and which informed a pacification strategy founded on brutal psychological techniques borrowed from totalitarian movements. Lazreg seeks to understand tortures impact on the Algerian population--especially women--and also on the French troops who became their torturers. 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.
Written by a preeminent historical sociologist, Torture and the Twilight of Empire holds particularly disturbing lessons for us today as we carry out the War on Terror.
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Book Title: Torture and the Twilight of Empire : From Algiers to Baghdad
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Torture and the Twilight of Empire : from Algiers to Baghdad
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Demography, Europe / France, Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), Africa / North, Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Political Freedom
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Marnia Lazreg
Item Width: 7.3 in
Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
