The Big Book of Pain - Torture & Punishment Through History

Mark P. Donnelly, Daniel Diehl

The History Press

2011

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-10: 0752459473

Taking readers into the ancient Roman coliseum, the medieval dungeon, the Inquisitional interrogation, the auto-da-fe, the witch-trial, and the most horrid of prisons, this is an exploration of the systematic use throughout the ages of various means of punishment, torture, coercion, and torment. It is a shocking and compelling study of the shameful methods and motives of the torturer and the executioner, and of the heinous duty they have performed through the ages. Since the earliest times it is an acknowledged fact that anyone can be made to confess to anything under torture, making such confessions inadmissible. This history of pain questions why such practices have continued for so long.

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Boa introdução

O autor dá uma geral nas técnicas de tortura até o século XIX. Não entra no século XX. Só faz uns comentários finais sobre casos mais recentes, como os do Iraque com humilhação de prisoneiros de guerra pelos EUA.