The history of torture throughout the ages
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The history of torture throughout the ages
(The Kegan Paul library of arcana)
Kegan Paul, 2003
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 315-320
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First published in 2005. Torture, an enduring and seemingly not declining aspect of man's relationship to his fellow man, is an enduring thread through human history. Whether it be practiced by primitive people, the ancient Greeks or the Catholic Church, whether it be ancient China, Japan, 1930's Germany, or Northern Ireland today, torture is alarmingly systematic and consistent in its methods. Impaling, burning, rack or wheel, mutilation, drawing and quartering, burning or hanging alive in chains. A very comprehensive and readable work.
Table of Contents
PREFACE PART I PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF TORTURE 1. THE MEANING AND LIMITATIONS OF TORTURE III. THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF TORTURE III. SADISM AS A BASIC CAUSE OF TORTURE BY THE INDIVIDUAL IV. THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE IN MASOCHISM V. THE CAUSES OF WHOLESALE OR MASS TORTURE VI. THE EFFECTS OF TORTURE XV. THE WAR UPON TORTURE XVI. SOME NOTORIOUS TORTURERS PART III THE TECHNIQUE OF TORTURE XVII. IMPALING METHODS XVIII. BURNING AT THE STAKE, BRANDING, BOILING TO DEATH, THE FIRE-PAN AND THE BRAZEN BULL XIX. SQUASSATION, THE RACK, THE WHEEL, THE BOOT AND THE SCAVENGER'S' DAUGHTER XX. WHIPPING AND BEATING XXI. MUTILATION, DRAWING AND QUARTERING, DECAPITATION XXII. BURYING ALIVE, HANGING ALIVE IN CHAINS, STARVATION, THE VIRGIN MARY, ETC. XXIII. TORTURE BY ORDEAL XXIV. MISCELLANEOUS FORMS OF TORTURE. XXV METHODS OF SELF-INFLICTED TORTURE XXVI. MODERN METHODS OF TORTURE XXVII. FORMS OF TORTURE OF ANIMALS PART IV THE CASE AGAINST TORTURE XXVIII. THE FUTILITY OF TORTURE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIMINALITY XXIX. THE EVILS OF TORTURE AS A FORM OF PUNISHMENT XXX. THE PSYC.HOPATHOLOGICAL ELEMENT IN TORTURE, AND ITS TREATMENT XXXI. THE ABOLITION OF TORTURE
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