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Anatomy of Torture
Does torture \"work?\" Can controversial
techniques such as waterboarding extract crucial and reliable
intelligence? Since 9/11, this question has been angrily debated in
the halls of power and the court of public opinion. In Anatomy
of Torture , Ron E. Hassner mines the archives of the Spanish
Inquisition to propose an answer that will frustrate and infuriate
both sides of the divide. The Inquisition's scribes recorded every
torment, every scream, and every confession in the torture chamber.
Their transcripts reveal that Inquisitors used torture deliberately
and meticulously, unlike the rash, improvised methods used by the
United States after 9/11. In their relentless pursuit of
underground Jewish communities in Spain and Mexico, the Inquisition
tortured in cold blood. But they treated any information extracted
with caution: torture was used to test information provided through
other means, not to uncover startling new evidence.
Hassner's findings in Anatomy of Torture have important
implications for ongoing torture debates. Rather than insist that
torture is ineffective, torture critics should focus their
attention on the morality of torture. If torture is evil, its
efficacy is irrelevant. At the same time, torture defenders cannot
advocate for torture as a counterterrorist \"quick fix\": torture has
never located, nor will ever locate, the hypothetical \"ticking
bomb\" that is frequently invoked to justify brutality in the name
of security.
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Colour of paradise : the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires
For the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids green was, as it remains for all Muslims, the color of Paradise, reserved for the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. Tapping a wide range of sources, Kris Lane traces the complex web of global trading networks that funneled emeralds from backland South America to populous Asian capitals between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Lane reveals the bloody conquest wars and forced labor regimes that accompanied their production. It is a story of trade, but also of transformations, how members of profoundly different societies at opposite ends of the globe assigned value to a few thousand pounds of imperfectly shiny green rocks.
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Cultural Encounters
More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression. Persecuted groups were able to survive the Inquisition by means of diverse strategies--whether Christianized Jews in Spain preserving their experiences in literature, or native American folk healers practicing medical care. These investigations of social resistance and cultural persistence will reinforce the cultural significance of the Inquisition. Contributors: Jaime Contreras, Anne J. Cruz, Jesús M. De Bujanda, Richard E. Greenleaf, Stephen Haliczer, Stanley M. Hordes, Richard L. Kagan, J. Jorge Klor de Alva, Moshe Lazar, Angus I. K. MacKay, Geraldine McKendrick, Roberto Moreno de los Arcos, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Noemí Quezada, María Helena Sanchez Ortega, Joseph H. Silverman This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
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The Roman Inquisition on the Stage of Italy, c. 1590-1640
From the moment of its founding in 1542, the Roman Inquisition acted as a political machine. Although inquisitors in earlier centuries had operated somewhat independently of papal authority, the gradual bureaucratization of the Roman Inquisition permitted the popes increasing license to establish and exercise direct control over local tribunals, though with varying degrees of success. In particular, Pope Urban VIII's aggressive drive to establish papal control through the agency of the Inquisition played out differently among the Italian states, whose local inquisitions varied in number and secular power. Rome's efforts to bring the Venetians to heel largely failed in spite of the interdict of 1606, and Venice maintained lay control of most religious matters. Although Florence and Naples resisted papal intrusions into their jurisdictions, on the other hand, they were eventually brought to answer directly to Rome-due in no small part to Urban VIII's subversions of the law.
Thomas F. Mayer provides a richly detailed account of the ways the Roman Inquisition operated to serve the papacy's long-standing political aims in Naples, Venice, and Florence. Drawing on the Inquisition's own records, diplomatic correspondence, local documents, newsletters, and other sources, Mayer sheds new light on papal interdicts and high-profile court cases that signaled significant shifts in inquisitorial authority for each Italian state. Alongside his earlier volume,The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo, this masterful study extends and develops our understanding of the Inquisition as a political and legal institution.
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Colour of paradise : the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires
Tapping a wide range of sources, Kris Lane traces the complex web of global trading networks that funneled emeralds from backland South America to populous Asian capitals between the 16th and the 18th centuries.
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