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Torture [PDF ebook]
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Originally published as part IV of Lea’s
Superstition and Force, this volume is one of the most succinct accounts in English of the place of torture in the legal process from the Roman Empire to the nineteenth century.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 232 ● ISBN 9781512803587 ● File size 5.5 MB ● Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. ● City Philadelphia ● Country US ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7819981 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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