The Image before the Weapon : : A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian /

The Image before the Weapon : : A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian / / Helen M. Kinsella.

Since at least the Middle Ages, the laws of war have distinguished between combatants and civilians under an injunction now formally known as the principle of distinction. The principle of distinction is invoked in contemporary conflicts as if there were an unmistakable and sure distinction to be ma...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Kinsella, Helen M.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2015
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Gender, Innocence, and Civilization
  • 2. Martial Piety in the Medieval and Chivalric Codes of War
  • 3. Civilization and Empire: Francisco de Vitoria and Hugo Grotius
  • 4. General Orders 100, Union General Sherman’s March to Atlanta, and the Sand Creek Massacre
  • 5. The 1899 Martens Clause and the 1949 IV Geneva Convention
  • 6. The Algerian Civil War and the 1977 Protocols Additional
  • 7. The Civil Wars of Guatemala and El Salvador
  • 8. Responsibility
  • Notes
  • Index

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