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Author Webb, Simon, author

Title A history of torture in Britain / Simon Webb
Published Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Use of Torture for Interrogation in Medieval and Tudor England; Chapter 2 Torture in Scotland; Chapter 3 The Decline of Torture in Seventeenth-Century England; Chapter 4 The Early Colonial Period; Chapter 5 Tortured to Death: Deliberately Prolonged Suffering in Executions; Chapter 6 Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain; Plate section; Chapter 7 Torture in the British Army and Navy; Chapter 8 Torture in the British Empire; Chapter 9 The Twentieth Century; Chapter 10 The Five Techniques; Endword
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 28, 2018)
Subject Torture -- Great Britain -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Torture
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526719300
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