Civilizing Torture

An American Tradition

W. Fitzhugh Brundage

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ISBN 9780674737662

Publication Date: 11/12/2018

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416 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

16 photos

Belknap Press

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W. Fitzhugh Brundage is William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his present work on torture in American history. Brundage has written extensively on racial inequality and violence, from segregation to lynching.

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Finalist, 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History

Finalist, 2019 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts, American Bar Association

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