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Humanity in Warfare / Geoffrey Best.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1980]Copyright date: ©1980Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231915007
  • 9780231884037
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Definitions and Connexions -- Chapter I. The Later Enlightenment Consensus -- Chapter II. First Steps in Modern War: Revolutionary, National and Popular -- Chapter III. The Legislative Foundations, 1815–1914: Conscience, Codes and Compromise -- Chapter IV. The Trials of Total War -- Chapter V. The Law of War in a World of Co-existences -- Chronological Guide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Argues that warring countries should observe some prohibitions and restraints on how fighting is conducted and presents the history of codes of conduct for warring parties since the middle of the 18th century.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Definitions and Connexions -- Chapter I. The Later Enlightenment Consensus -- Chapter II. First Steps in Modern War: Revolutionary, National and Popular -- Chapter III. The Legislative Foundations, 1815–1914: Conscience, Codes and Compromise -- Chapter IV. The Trials of Total War -- Chapter V. The Law of War in a World of Co-existences -- Chronological Guide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Argues that warring countries should observe some prohibitions and restraints on how fighting is conducted and presents the history of codes of conduct for warring parties since the middle of the 18th century.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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