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A world history of war crimes : from antiquity to the present /
"A World History of War Crimes provides a truly global history of war crimes and the involvement of the legal systems faced with these acts. Documenting the long historical arc traced by human efforts to limit warfare, from codes of war in antiquity designed to maintain a religiously conceived...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. The Roots of the Law of War in World History
- 2. The Law of War in Rome, the Islamic World, and the European Middle Ages
- 3. Making Law in the Slaughterhouse of the World: Early Modernity & the Law of War
- 4. The Law of War in the 18th and 19th Centuries
- 5. World War I and the Failure of the Law of War
- 6. World War II and the Triumph of the Law of War
- 7. Into the 21st Century: War Crimes & their Treatment since World War II
- Conclusion: The Future of the Law of War
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index