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Torture Through the Ages

By بيرنهاردت هروود

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2016

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Bernhardt J. Hurwood surveys the instruments, institutions and rationalisations of torture across centuries and cultures. Judicial punishment, religious persecution, slavery, warfare and political repression appear not as isolated cruelties but as recurring systems through which authority turns pain into spectacle and control. Written to confront rather than sanitise its subject, Torture Through the Ages is a disturbing historical catalogue that asks how readily claims of justice and civilisation have concealed human brutality. Originally written in English as “Torture Through the Ages”, the work appears here in an Arabic translation by Mamdouh Adwan.

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