The politics of cruelty : an essay on the literature of imprisonment
Millett, Kate1994
Books
An account of the uses of torture in recent and contemporary history. There are individual chapters on Stalin's gulags, the Nazi death camps and Iraq. This book seeks to explain why torture has been such a widespread practice through human history.
Main title:
The politics of cruelty : an essay on the literature of imprisonment / by Kate Millett.
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Imprint:
London : Viking, 1994.
Collation:
335p. ; 25cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780670856411
Language:
English
BRN:
436965