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Torture and State Violence in the United States
A Short Documentary History

By Pallitto, Robert M.

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ISBN: 1421402483 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Published: Oct 5 2011 Pages: 272 Weight: 1.15lbs. Height: 9.25" Width: 6.00" Depth: 0.75" Language: English

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Pallitto (political science, Setton Hall U.) reviews and annotates US government documents that in some way represent official views on the use of torture and violence by the State. He reviews material from the colonial period and the early republic, the Westward expansion up to the end of slavery, ...

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Pallitto (political science, Setton Hall U.) reviews and annotates US government documents that in some way represent official views on the use of torture and violence by the State. He reviews material from the colonial period and the early republic, the Westward expansion up to the end of slavery, the imperialist era of Jim Crow up to the World Wars, the Cold War up to 9/11, and the post-9/11 period to present. His annotations precede the documents, which are themselves often only presented as relevant excerpts. In the end, he interrogates a history of changing official attitudes, sometimes discontinuous, toward state violence. He makes the case that torture is not a recent aberration in government conduct, but an extension of existing trends. He also aims to prompt rethinking the seemingly necessary place of torture in State policy and the "state of exception" rationale for using it. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)