A Scrap of Paper : : Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War / / Isabel V. Hull.

In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision making in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal considerations in each. She demonstrates how differences in state structures and legal traditions shaped the way the three belligerents fought the war.Hull focuses...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Prologue: What We Have Forgotten
  • 2. Belgian Neutrality
  • 3. The “Belgian Atrocities” and the Laws of War on Land
  • 4. Occupation and the Treatment of Enemy Civilians
  • 5. Great Britain and the Blockade
  • 6. Breaking and Making International Law: The Blockade, 1915–1918
  • 7. Germany and New Weapons: Submarines, Zeppelins, Poison Gas, Flamethrowers
  • 8. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
  • 9. Reprisals: Prisoners of War and Allied Aerial Bombardment
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index