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Lincoln on trial : southern civilians and the law of war /
In light of recent controversies and legal actions related to America's treatment of enemy prisoners in the Middle East and Guantánamo Bay, the regulation of government during wartime has become a volatile issue on the global scene. By today's standards, Lincoln's adherence to the la...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Louisville :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In light of recent controversies and legal actions related to America's treatment of enemy prisoners in the Middle East and Guantánamo Bay, the regulation of government during wartime has become a volatile issue on the global scene. By today's standards, Lincoln's adherence to the laws of war could be considered questionable, and his critics, past and present, have not hesitated to charge that he was a war criminal. In Lincoln on Trial: Southern Civilians and the Law of War, Burrus M. Carnahan conducts an extensive analysis of Lincoln's leadership throughout the Civil War as he struggled to ba. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (165 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-154) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813173665 0813173663 9780813139449 0813139449 0813135389 9780813135380 1282937529 9781282937529 9786612937521 6612937521 |