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050 00 KZ7145 |b.B79 2016
100 1  Bryant, Michael, |d1962- |eauthor.
245 12 A world history of war crimes : |bfrom antiquity to the present / |cMichael Bryant.
264  1 London : |bBloomsbury Academic, |c2016.
300    viii, 289 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-282) and index.
505 0  The roots of the law of war in world history -- The law of war in Rome, the Islamic world, and the European Middle Ages -- Making law in the slaughterhouse of the world : early modernity and the law of war -- The law of war in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The First World War and the failure of the law of war -- The Second World War and the triumph of the law of war -- Into the twenty-first century : war crimes and their treatment since the Second World War -- Conclusion : The future of the law of war.
520    "This book 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"--Page 4 of cover.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 War crimes |xHistory.
650  0 Crimes against humanity |xHistory.
650  0 War (International law)
650  7 Crimes against humanity. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00883142
650  7 War crimes. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01170465
650  7 War (International law) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01170412
650  7 Krigsförbrytelser |xhistoria. |2sao
650  7 Brott mot mänskligheten |xhistoria. |2sao
650  7 Krigets lagar. |2sao
650  7 Kriegsverbrechen. |0(DE-588)4033151-9 |2gnd
650  7 Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit. |0(DE-588)4124385-7 |2gnd
650  7 Kriegsrecht. |0(DE-588)4165706-8 |2gnd
852 0   |bstacks |hKZ7145 |i.B79 2016