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100 1 _aLazreg, Marnia.
_910146
245 1 0 _aTorture and the twilight of empire : from Algiers to Baghdad /
_bfrom Algiers to Baghdad /
_cMarnia Lazreg.
260 _aPrinceton :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c2008.
300 _axii, 335 p. :
_bmaps ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aHuman rights and crimes against humanity
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-322) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- 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 _a"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.
610 2 0 _aAbu Ghraib Prison.
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650 0 _aTorture
_zAlgeria
_xHistory
_y20th century.
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650 0 _aIraq War, 2003-2011
_xAtrocities.
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650 0 _aTorture.
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650 4 _aIraq War, 2003-
_xAtrocities.
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651 0 _aAlgeria
_xHistory
_yRevolution, 1954-1962
_xAtrocities.
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651 4 _aAlgeria
_xHistory
_xRevolution, 1954-1962
_xAtrocities.
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830 0 _aHuman rights and crimes against humanity.
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856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007014846.html
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