@article{437564, author = {Pallitto, Robert M.,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437564}, title = {Torture and state violence in the United States : a short documentary history /}, publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press,}, abstract = {"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.}, recid = {437564}, pages = {xvi, 272 p. ;}, address = {Baltimore, Md. :}, year = {2011}, }