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A world history of war crimes : from antiquity to the present, Michael Bryant
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- Summary
- 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 cosmic order to the gradual use in the modern age of the criminal trial as a means of enforcing universal norms, this book provides a comprehensive one-volume account of war and the laws that have governed conflict since the dawn of world civilizations. Throughout his narrative, Michael Bryant locates the origin and evolution of the law of war in the interplay between different cultures. While showing that no single philosophical idea underlay the law of war in world history, this volume also proves that war in global civilization has rarely been an anarchic free-for-all. Rather, from its beginnings warfare has been subject to certain constraints defined by the unique needs and cosmological understandings of the cultures that produce them. Only in late modernity has law assumed its current international humanitarian form. The criminalization of war crimes in international courts today is only the most recent development of the ancient theme of constraining when and how war may be fought.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 289 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781472510624
- Label
- A world history of war crimes : from antiquity to the present
- Title
- A world history of war crimes
- Title remainder
- from antiquity to the present
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Bryant
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 cosmic order to the gradual use in the modern age of the criminal trial as a means of enforcing universal norms, this book provides a comprehensive one-volume account of war and the laws that have governed conflict since the dawn of world civilizations. Throughout his narrative, Michael Bryant locates the origin and evolution of the law of war in the interplay between different cultures. While showing that no single philosophical idea underlay the law of war in world history, this volume also proves that war in global civilization has rarely been an anarchic free-for-all. Rather, from its beginnings warfare has been subject to certain constraints defined by the unique needs and cosmological understandings of the cultures that produce them. Only in late modernity has law assumed its current international humanitarian form. The criminalization of war crimes in international courts today is only the most recent development of the ancient theme of constraining when and how war may be fought.--
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- Bryant, Michael
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- War crimes
- Crimes against humanity
- War (International law)
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- A world history of war crimes : from antiquity to the present, Michael Bryant
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
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- Content category
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- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- FIEb17793725
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9781472510624
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white)
- System control number
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- (Uk)017577282
- (OCoLC)907391051
- Label
- A world history of war crimes : from antiquity to the present, Michael Bryant
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- FIEb17793725
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9781472510624
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white)
- System control number
-
- (Uk)017577282
- (OCoLC)907391051
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