Torture and the twilight of empire : from Algiers to Baghdad / (Record no. 2227)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2007014846
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International Standard Book Number 9780691131351
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International Standard Book Number 069113135X
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System control number (OCoLC)123136732
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041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title Eng
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Classification number HV8599
Item number .L39
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 956.7044/3
Edition number 22
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Lazreg, Marnia.
9 (RLIN) 10146
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Torture and the twilight of empire : from Algiers to Baghdad /
Remainder of title from Algiers to Baghdad /
Statement of responsibility, etc Marnia Lazreg.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Princeton :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Princeton University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2008.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 335 p. :
Other physical details maps ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Human rights and crimes against humanity
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-322) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Imperial politics and torture -- Revolutionary war theory -- Militarization of the colonial state -- Psychological action -- Models of pacification -- Ethnography of torture -- Doing torture -- Women: between torture and military feminism -- Ideology of torture -- Conscience, imperial identity, and torture -- The Christian church and anti-subversive war -- Sartre, Fanon, and Camus -- Reflections on torture -- Moralizing torture -- Repetitions: from Algiers to Baghdad -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "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 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 ... 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 révolutionnaire, 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 torture's impact on the Algerian population - especially women - and also on the French troops who became their torturers."--Jacket.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Abu Ghraib Prison.
9 (RLIN) 10147
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Torture
Geographic subdivision Algeria
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
9 (RLIN) 10148
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Iraq War, 2003-2011
General subdivision Atrocities.
9 (RLIN) 10149
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Torture.
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650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Iraq War, 2003-
General subdivision Atrocities.
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651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Algeria
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision Revolution, 1954-1962
General subdivision Atrocities.
9 (RLIN) 10152
651 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Algeria
General subdivision History
-- Revolution, 1954-1962
-- Atrocities.
9 (RLIN) 10153
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Human rights and crimes against humanity.
9 (RLIN) 10154
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Materials specified Table of contents only
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