The civilianization of war : the changing civil-military divide, 1914-2014 /

Distinguishing between civilians and combatants is a central aspect of modern conflicts. Yet such distinctions are rarely upheld in practice. This book offers new ways of understanding civilians' exposure to violence in war. Each chapter explores a particular approach to the political, legal, o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barros, Andrew, 1963- (Editor ), Thomas, Martin, 1964- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Colección:Human rights in history.
Temas:
1900-2099
Civilians in war > History > 20th century.
Civilians in war > History > 21st century.
Guerre > Participation des civils > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre > Participation des civils > Histoire > 21e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Civilians in war
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Who fights? : combatants, mobilization, and the changing nature of war
  • The "Total War" era, 1914-1945
  • Doing the necessary : the declaration of London and British strategy, 1905-1915 / John Ferris
  • Fighting the Fifth Column : the terror in Republican Madrid during the Spanish Civil War / Julius Ruiz
  • Moscow 1941 : the rise and fall of the Soviet People's Militia (Narodnoe Opolchenie) / Jean Levesque
  • The Cold War and decolonization, 1945-2000
  • The collapsing civil-military divide in wars of decolonization : two case studies from the Indochina War (1945-1954) / Christopher Goscha
  • Parallel ambiguities : prisoners during the Algerian War of Independence / Raphaelle Branche
  • East Pakistan/Bangladesh 1971-72: how many victims, who, and why? / Christian Gerlach
  • "I wasn't a boy, I was a soldier" : militarization and civilianization in narratives of child soldiers in Africa's contemporary conflicts, c. 1990-2010 / Stacey Hynd
  • A moving target: strategic bombing and civilians, 1916- 2014
  • The problems of opening Pandora's box : strategic bombing and the civil-military divide, 1916-39 / Andrew Barros
  • Bombing civilians scientifically : operational research in bomber command, 1941-1945 / Victor Bissonnette
  • Creating a cordon sanitaire: U.S. strategic bombing and civilians in the Korean War / Alexander Downes
  • "One hell of a killing machine." how a civilian agency became the vanguard of America's war on terror / Chris Fuller
  • Civilian protection and international norms and organizations: when and how much?
  • Turn everyone into a civilian : Rene Cassin and the Unesco Project, 1919-1945 / Andrew Barros
  • Human rights is the continuation of war by other means: the United States and the creation of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, 1945-48 / Olivier Barsalou
  • The United Nations, decolonization, and violence against civilians in the French and British Empires / Martin Thomas
  • The "protection of civilians": peacekeeping's new raison d'etre? / Frederic Megret.

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