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A Scrap of Paper : Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War /

A century after the outbreak of the Great War, we have forgotten the central role that international law and the dramatically different interpretations of it played in the conflict's origins and conduct. In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision-making in Germany, Great Brit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hull, Isabel V. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Prologue: What We Have Forgotten
  • 2. Belgian Neutrality
  • 3. The "Belgian Atrocities" and the Laws of War on Land
  • 4. Occupation and the Treatment of Enemy Civilians
  • 5. Great Britain and the Blockade
  • 6. Breaking and Making International Law: The Blockade, 1915-1918
  • 7. Germany and New Weapons: Submarines, Zeppelins, Poison Gas, Flamethrowers
  • 8. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
  • 9. Reprisals: Prisoners of War and Allied Aerial Bombardment
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index