Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-266) and index.
• Colonial North America and the early republic — Slavery and the Frontier — Imperialism, Jim Crow, and world war — The Cold War, Vietnam, and torture by the police — The war on terror.
• Organized around five broad thematic periods in American history–colonial America and the early republic slavery and the frontier imperialism, Jim Crow, and World Wars I and II the Cold War, Vietnam, and police torture and the war on terror–this annotated documentary history traces the low and high points of official attitudes toward state violence. –P. [4] of cover.

Subjects:

• Torture — United States — History.
• Torture — Government policy — United States.

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