Bryant, Michael S.,  1962- <br/><br/>
A world history of war crimes :  from antiquity to the present / 
Michael Bryant. 
 - Second edition. 
 - 1 online resource (xiv, 406 pages) :  illustrations. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The roots of the law of war in world history -- The law of war in pre-Columbian America -- Making law in the slaughterhouse of the world : early modernity & the law of war -- Colonialism and the law of war : Ireland and the Americas -- The law of war in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : Europe and the United States of America -- 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 21st century : war crimes & their treatment since the second world war -- Singers of songs of experience : trying to explain war crimes in world history -- Conclusion : the future of the law of war. 
<br/><br/> Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers. 
<br/><br/> "The greatly expanded and enhanced second edition of [this book] provides an authoritative and accessible global history of war crimes and the laws of war. Tracing 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 humanitarian norms, Michael Bryant's book is a masterful account of the subject. Five brand new chapters are included that reinforce the geographical, chronological, historiographical and conceptual dimensions of the book"-- 
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<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781350106635 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.5040/9781350106635  doi 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>War crimes--History.<br/>Crimes against humanity--History.<br/>War (International law)--History.<br/>General & world history
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KZ7145  / .B79 2021eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>341.6/909