The laws of yesterday's wars / / edited by Samuel C. Duckett White.
"This book offers a culture-by-culture account of various unique restrictions placed on warfare over time, in a bid to demonstrate the underlying humanity often accompanying the horrors of war. It offers the first systematic exploration of Indigenous Australian laws of war, relaying decades of...
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| Superior document: | International humanitarian law series, volume 58 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International humanitarian law series ;
v. 58. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Samuel White
- Indigenous Australians / Ray Kerkhove & Samuel White
- Māori warfare and the New Zealand wars : atrocities, chivalry and apologies / Alexander Gillespie
- The Aztecs / Samuel White and Ray Kerkhove
- The late Middle Ages / Samuel White
- The Renaissance / Kyle Walker
- The Viking Age / Andrew D. Butler
- Privates and privateers in Elizabethan England / Andrew Read
- Code of necessity : lawfare during the United States Civil War / Christopher M. Bailey
- Conclusion / Samuel White.