%0 Book
%A Katrin Dauenhauer
%D 2015
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783653054132
%T The Shadow of Torture: Debating US Transgressions in Military Interventions, 1899–2008
%R 10.3726/978-3-653-05413-2
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049142
%X The photographs from Abu Ghraib triggered a debate on torture in the United States that has been led with a significant amount of visibility. What has been noticeably absent, however, is a thorough historical contextualization of US torture following September 11, 2001. The Shadow of Torture analyzes the debates on torture during the Vietnam War and the Philippine-American War and shows that the current controversy did not arise out of a political vacuum but reflects and draws upon pre-existing discursive contexts and practices.
%K US Congress, Vietnam War, Abu Ghraib, Philippine-American War, Iraq War
%G English