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The enemy in our hands : America's treatment of enemy prisoners of war, from the Revolution to the War on Terror /
"Discovery and exposure of the U.S. military's inhumane treatment of detainees at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and the Guantanamo Bay detention camp generated a media frenzy that many argue irrevocably damaged America's reputation as a world leader. Worldwide scrutiny of the photo...
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2010.
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- Introduction: The enemy: imposing the condition of captivity
- Prisoners of independence: British and Hessian enemy prisoners of war
- Habeas corpus: war against Loyalists and Quakers
- Second American revolution: cartel and enemy prisoners of the War of 1812
- Manifest destiny versus nativism: Mexico, 1846-1848
- Prisoners of politics: a very uncivil war
- Indians as POWs in America: from discovery to 1914
- Spaniards and Insurrectos: Spanish-American War (1898) and war in the Philippines (1899-1905)
- Over there and over here: enemy prisoners of war and prisoners of state in the Great War
- Pensionierte Wehrmacht: German and Italian POWs and internees in the United States
- Reborn: Japanese soldiers as enemy prisoners of war and American Nisei internees
- After the victory: optimism, justice, or vengeance?
- Prisoners at war: forced repatriation and the prison revolts in Korea
- Vietnam quagmire: enemy prisoners of war, Phoenix, and the Vietcong infrastructure
- To Desert Storm and beyond: enemy prisoners of war and the conflict of rules
- Iraqi freedom, Abu Ghraib, and the Guantanamo: the problem of the moral high ground
- Evolution of new paradigms: reflections on the past, present, and future
- Appendixes. Loyalists units organized in the American Revolution ; Cartel for the exchange of POWs in the War of 1812 ; Confederate and union POW camps ; General order 207: instructions for the government of armies of the United States ; Andersonville deaths, 1864-1865 ; Hague convention ratified by the United States, 3 December 1909 ; German prisoners captured by US divisions, 1917-1918 ; Executive order 9066 ; World War II trials of US personnel ; Nuremberg principles, 1946 ; Geneva convention, 1949 ; US code of conduct, 1954.