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Book Hamlyn History of Punishment and Torture

Download or read book Hamlyn History of Punishment and Torture written by Karen Farrington and published by Hamlyn (UK). This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Although empathetic, Farrington maintains a historian's objective eye.”—Publisher's Weekly. Images graphically show bodies nailed to crosses; suspects tied to ducking stools; and the ruthless courts of the Inquisition. Discussions of human sacrifice, ordeal by fire or water, the dark days of juvenile justice, and capital punishment reveal the astonishing array of clever and cruel sentences devised by those determined to deliver the ultimate punishments.

Book Hamlyn History of Punishment and Torture

Download or read book Hamlyn History of Punishment and Torture written by Karen FARRINGTON and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dark Justice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Farrington
  • Publisher : Hamlyn
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780765199102
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Dark Justice written by Karen Farrington and published by Hamlyn. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of different punishment and torture techniques used throughout the ages, from human sacrifices of the Dark Ages, to capital punishment methods used today

Book History of Punishment and Torture

Download or read book History of Punishment and Torture written by Karen Farrington and published by . This book was released on 2001-09-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who lived in fear of the inquisitors? What were the hangman's secrets? Where are the most notorious jails in the world? This book contains the answers to these and other questions about punishment and torture methods.

Book A History of Punishment and Torture

Download or read book A History of Punishment and Torture written by Karen Farringdon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who lived in fear of the inquisitors? What were the hangman's secrets? Where are the most notorious jails in the world? This work contains the answers to these and other questions about punishment and torture methods.

Book History of Punishment and Torture

Download or read book History of Punishment and Torture written by Karen Farringdon and published by Bounty Books. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Torture

Download or read book The History of Torture written by Daniel P. Mannix and published by eNet Press. This book was released on with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torture has been an intrinsic part of the legal process in most cultures for centuries. Indeed, the violence we witness daily in our own society and recent revelations about the continued use of torture, seems proof that inflicting extreme mental or physical pain on an individual to achieve one's own ends is not a taboo practice buried in the past. This incomparable, extremely thorough book — told with a frightening and factual honesty — examines every aspect of torture: professional torturers, theories and techniques, the role of torture in history, moral implications, and the refinements brought to the practice of torture by individual fanatics, religious groups, the military, and, indeed, entire cultures. For such transgressions against society as adultery, heresy and espionage, from the primitive snake pit to the sophistication of brainwashing, there have been literally thousands of techniques devised to distort both the body and the mind in order to satisfy the sadistic needs of those who command, perform and witness human torture. At the time of its first publication (1964), The History of Torture was the most complete repository of information on the subject ever assembled in one volume.

Book Blind Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marcus Wood
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780415926980
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Blind Memory written by Marcus Wood and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this important volume, the author provides an invaluable addition to the limited literature now available on the visual images associated with slavery and abolition, integrated into a sophisticated analysis of their meaning and legacy today. of color images. 150 illustrations.

Book The History of Torture

Download or read book The History of Torture written by Brian Innes and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Torture tells the complete story of torture, from its earliest uses right up to the present day, from the tools and techniques used, to the campaigns to abolish its use.

Book The Nature and Function of Water  Baths  Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance

Download or read book The Nature and Function of Water Baths Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays offer scholars, teachers, and students a new basis for discussing attitudes toward, and technological expertise concerning, water in antiquity through the early Modern period, and they examine historical water use and ideology both diachronically and cross regionally. Topics include gender roles and water usage; attitudes, practices, and innovations in baths and bathing; water and the formation of identity and policy; ancient and medieval water sources and resources; and religious and literary water imagery. The authors describe how ideas about the nature and function of water created and shaped social relationships, and how religion, politics, and science transformed, and were themselves transformed by, the manipulation of, uses of, and disputes over water in daily life, ceremonies, and literature. Contributors are Rabun Taylor, Sandra Lucore, Robert F. Sutton, Jr., Cynthia K Kosso, Kevin Lawton, Evy Johanne Håland, Hélène Cazes, Alexandra Cuffel, Mark Munn, Brenda Longfellow, Gretchen Meyers, Sara Saba, Scott John McDonough, Etienne Dunant, E. J. Owens , Mehmet Taşlıalan, Deborah Chatr Aryamontri, John Stephenson, Lin A. Ferrand, Paul Trio, Anne Scott, Misty Rae Urban, Ruth Stevenson, Charles Connell, Alyce Jordan, Ronald Cooley, and Irene Matthews.

Book Private Law Remedies for Extraterritorial Human Rights Violations

Download or read book Private Law Remedies for Extraterritorial Human Rights Violations written by and published by Eric Engle. This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Big Book of Pain

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  • Author : Daniel Diehl
  • Publisher : History PressLtd
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780750945837
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book The Big Book of Pain written by Daniel Diehl and published by History PressLtd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Book of Pain offers a history of the punishments and tortures administered to offenders in all periods for which records exist. They include the peculiar punishments known as the ducking stool, the Scottish maiden, the pillory, the drunkard's cloak and the scold's bridle, and unsavoury punishments such as death by pressing, being hanged, drawn and quartered, and death by boiling.

Book The History of Punishment

Download or read book The History of Punishment written by Michael Kerrigan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the history of punishment from the earliest times to the present day.

Book History and Hope

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  • Author : Kevin M. Cahill
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2013-09-01
  • ISBN : 0823260755
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book History and Hope written by Kevin M. Cahill and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and Hope: The International Humanitarian Reader provides a better understanding—both within and outside academia—of the multifaceted demands posed by humanitarian assistance programs. The Reader is a compilation of the most important chapters in the twelve-volume International Humanitarian Affairs book series published by Fordham University Press. Each selected chapter has been edited and updated. In addition, the series editor, Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., has written, among other chapters, an introductory essay explaining the academic evolution of the discipline of humanitarian assistance. It focuses on the “Fordham Experience”: its Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) has developed practical programs for training fieldworkers, especially those dealing with complex emergencies following conflicts and man-made or natural disasters.

Book A History of the Laws of War  Volume 1

Download or read book A History of the Laws of War Volume 1 written by Alexander Gillespie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique new work of reference traces the origins of the modern laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day. Relying on written records from as far back as 2400 BCE, and using sources ranging from the Bible to Security Council Resolutions, the author pieces together the history of a subject which is almost as old as civilisation itself. The author shows that as long as humanity has been waging wars it has also been trying to find ways of legitimising different forms of combatants and regulating the treatment of captives. This first book on warfare deals with the broad question of whether the patterns of dealing with combatants and captives have changed over the last 5,000 years, and if so, how? In terms of context, the first part of the book is about combatants and those who can 'lawfully' take part in combat. In many regards, this part of the first volume is a series of 'less than ideal' pathways. This is because in an ideal world there would be no combatants because there would be no fighting. Yet as a species we do not live in such a place or even anywhere near it, either historically or in contemporary times. This being so, a second-best alternative has been to attempt to control the size of military forces and, therefore, the bloodshed. This is also not the case by which humanity has worked over the previous centuries. Rather, the clear assumption for thousands of years has been that authorities are allowed to build the size of their armed forces as large as they wish. The restraints that have been applied are in terms of the quality and methods by which combatants are taken. The considerations pertain to questions of biology such as age and sex, geographical considerations such as nationality, and the multiple nuances of informal or formal combatants. These questions have also overlapped with ones of compulsion and whether citizens within a country can be compelled to fight without their consent. Accordingly, for the previous 3,000 years, the question has not been whether there should be a limit on the number of soldiers, but rather who is or is not a lawful combatant. It has rarely been a question of numbers. It has been, and remains, one of type. The second part of this book is about people, typically combatants, captured in battle. It is about what happens to their status as prisoners, about the possibilities of torture, assistance if they are wounded and what happens to their remains should they be killed and their bodies fall into enemy hands. The theme that ties all of these considerations together is that all of the acts befall those who are, to one degree or another, captives of their enemies. As such, they are no longer masters of their own fate. As a work of reference this first volume, as part of a set of three, is unrivalled, and will be of immense benefit to scholars and practitioners researching and advising on the laws of warfare. It also tells a story which throws fascinating new light on the history of international law and on the history of warfare itself.

Book The History of Torture and Execution

Download or read book The History of Torture and Execution written by Jean Kellaway and published by Mercury Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Torture and Execution examines these fascinating but grisly subjects by time, region, and method.

Book The History of Torture

Download or read book The History of Torture written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: