The image before the weapon : a critical history of the distinction between combatant and civilian / / Helen M. Kinsella.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Kinsella, Helen.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 260 p.

Table of Contents

• Gender, innocence, and civilization
• Martial piety in the medieval and chivalric codes of war
• Civilization and empire: Francisco de Vitoria and Hugo Grotius
• General orders 100, Union General Sherman's March to Atlanta, and the Sand Creek Massacre
• The 1899 Martens Clause and the 1949 IV Geneva Convention
• The Algerian Civil War and the 1977 Protocols Additional
• The civil wars of Guatemala and El Salvador
• Responsibility.