A world history of war crimes : (Record no. 36076)

MARC details
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 9781472510624
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Call number 341.6909 BR WO
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL AUTHOR
Authors Bryant, Michael S.
TITLE STATEMENT
Title A world history of war crimes :
Subtitle from antiquity to the present
Statement of responsibility, etc. Michael Bryant
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication London :
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic,
Date c2016.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent viii, 289 p. :
Other Details ill. ;
Size 24 cm.
SUMMARY
Summary "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.- Cover, page 4.<br/> "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.<br/><br/>
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Crimes against humanity
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading War crimes
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
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Public note Location Map
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL AUTHOR
-- 30671
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
-- 29237
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
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Holdings
Date last seen Full call number Barcode Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Withdrawn status Permanent location Current location Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition
22/05/2019 341.6909 BR WO T0062535 22/05/2019 REGULAR   Dewey Decimal Classification       University of Wollongong in Dubai University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 31/07/2019 MERIC