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7202610The History of Torturehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-history-of-torture-9798337200279/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6747972/image.jpg?v=638709300046330000206251MXNOpen Road MediaInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>The author of <em>The Way of the Gladiator</em> continues his exploration of the dark side of history with this grisly account of pain and punishment through the ages.</strong><br />Human beings have a deep-seated instinct for cruelty, and, so far, have not evolved much past it. History is rife with examples of the infliction of pain used as penalty or execution. In <em>The History of Torture</em>, Daniel P. Mannix takes you from the crucifixions of ancient Rome, to the hanging of women during the Salem witch trials, to the atrocities discovered at Nazi concentration camps.<br />The act of torture has shifted from simple barbarism to advanced psychological techniques thanks to science and technology. Now its not just an actual flogging that will have a prisoner spilling his guts, but law enforcements coercive tactics that might prompt a confession.<br />Follow Mannix as he: leads you into the chambers of Inquisitors, who elevated torture to an art form; illuminates the myriad miseries of the slave trade, Americas greatest contribution to the torture hall of fame; and explains the most terrible and famous of all Chinese tortures, the <em>Ling-chez</em> or "death of a thousand cuts."<br />No country or culture is spared in this wide-reaching survey of suffering.</p>...6854573The History of Torture206251https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-history-of-torture-9798337200279/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6747972/image.jpg?v=638709300046330000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20259798337200279_W3siaWQiOiJlMDAxYjQ1Mi01OGFjLTQ5OGEtODc0NS0xZWI0YzViOTJjYTQiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI1MSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQ1LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIwNiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDMtMDRUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9798337200279_<p><strong>The author of <em>The Way of the Gladiator</em> continues his exploration of the dark side of history with this grisly account of pain and punishment through the ages.</strong></p><p>Human beings have a deep-seated instinct for cruelty, and, so far, have not evolved much past it. History is rife with examples of the infliction of pain used as penalty or execution. In <em>The History of Torture</em>, Daniel P. Mannix takes you from the crucifixions of ancient Rome, to the hanging of women during the Salem witch trials, to the atrocities discovered at Nazi concentration camps.</p><p>The act of torture has shifted from simple barbarism to advanced psychological techniques thanks to science and technology. Now its not just an actual flogging that will have a prisoner spilling his guts, but law enforcements coercive tactics that might prompt a confession.</p><p>Follow Mannix as he: leads you into the chambers of Inquisitors, who elevated torture to an art form; illuminates the myriad miseries of the slave trade, Americas greatest contribution to the torture hall of fame; and explains the most terrible and famous of all Chinese tortures, the <em>Ling-chez</em> or death of a thousand cuts.</p><p>No country or culture is spared in this wide-reaching survey of suffering.</p>...(*_*)9798337200279_<p><strong>The author of <em>The Way of the Gladiator</em> continues his exploration of the dark side of history with this grisly account of pain and punishment through the ages.</strong><br />Human beings have a deep-seated instinct for cruelty, and, so far, have not evolved much past it. History is rife with examples of the infliction of pain used as penalty or execution. In <em>The History of Torture</em>, Daniel P. Mannix takes you from the crucifixions of ancient Rome, to the hanging of women during the Salem witch trials, to the atrocities discovered at Nazi concentration camps.<br />The act of torture has shifted from simple barbarism to advanced psychological techniques thanks to science and technology. Now its not just an actual flogging that will have a prisoner spilling his guts, but law enforcements coercive tactics that might prompt a confession.<br />Follow Mannix as he: leads you into the chambers of Inquisitors, who elevated torture to an art form; illuminates the myriad miseries of the slave trade, Americas greatest contribution to the torture hall of fame; and explains the most terrible and famous of all Chinese tortures, the <em>Ling-chez</em> or "death of a thousand cuts."<br />No country or culture is spared in this wide-reaching survey of suffering.</p>...9798337200279_Open Road Medialibro_electonico_9798337200279_9798337200279Daniel P.InglésMéxico2025-03-04T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-ec26847a-7669-4bf8-9f30-a71879e5529d.epub2025-03-04T00:00:00+00:00Open Road Media