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Torture and State Violence in the United States Alex Martin the disparate actors have notThe war on terror has brought to light troubling actions by the United States government that many claim amount to torture. But as this book shows, state sanctioned violence and degrading, cruel, and unusual punishments have a long and contentious history in the nation. 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