Beschreibung
`A masterfully analytical history of torture's emergence in Roman law, its insertion into the medieval law of proof, its gradual abolition after 1750, and its dreadful recrudescence in modern times. The book is an exemplary application of historical scholarship to an issue where emotions tend to run ahead of reason, and as such it is a worthy successor to another volume in the same series, Ernest Gellner's `Nations and Nationalism'. Times Literary Supplement
Buchdetails
Format
Gebundene Ausgabe
Seiten
202 Seiten
Sprache
Englisch
Veröffentlicht
Jan 1, 1985
Verlag
Blackwell Publishers
Ausgaben
2 editions
ISBN-10
0631131647
ISBN-13
9780631131649