University of Melbourne Press, Melbourne, Date: 2007. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 286 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Edges slightly foxed. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Contrary to US government assertions, the Abu Ghraib photos do not reflect the perverse handiwork of a 'few bad apples'. As American Torture reveals, tortures such as sensory deprivation, sexual humiliation and forced standing are core elements of the American detention regime, a product of more than sixty years of government research and development fully detailed in extensive CIA manuals. In the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, mainstream media and human rights organisations have exhaustively documented the American use of torture in detention centres around the world. Although expansive, these reports lack context. American Torture examines the origins of this detention regime and traces how it was refined, spread and kept legal. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; United States; ISBN: 0522853331. ISBN/EAN: 9780522853339. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8068. . 9780522853339 2007. University of Melbourne Press ISBN 0522853331 978052 ...

ISBN10: 0522853331, ISBN13: 9780522853339, [publisher: Melbourne University Press] Softcover American Torture From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond By Michael Otterman. Very good softback, no inscriptions. 285 pages, illustrated. Electric shocks. Sleep deprivation. Forced standing. Water boarding. George W. Bush called them an 'alternative set of procedures', vital tools needed 'to protect the American people and our allies'. By any definition, these techniques are torture. In American Torture Michael Otterman reveals how torture became standard practice in today's War on Terror and how it was refined, spread and kept legal. Long before Abu Ghraib became a household name, the US military and CIA used torture with impunity at home and abroad. Billions of dollars were spent during the Cold War studying, refining, then teaching these techniques to American interrogators and to foreign officers charged with keeping Communism at bay. As the Cold War ended, these tortures were legalised using the very laws designed to eradicate their use. After 9/11, they were revived again for use on 'enemy combatants' detained in America's vast gulag of prisons across the globe, from secret CIA black sites in Thailand to the detention centre at Guant namo Bay, Cuba. American Torture shows how the road to Abu Ghraib leads back through US military survival schools, Latin American military assistance programs, Vietnamese counter-terror operations ...
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