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02940aam a2200409 i 4500 001 5E7D9F28E9E911EBBBC9467A3DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210721010052 008 200819t20212021enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020036909 020 $a 1350106593 020 $a 9781350106598 020 $a 1350106607 020 $a 9781350106604 035 $a (OCoLC)1191457489 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d GWL $d OCLCO $d FIE $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a KZ7145 $b .B79 2021 100 1 $a Bryant, Michael S., $d 1962- $e author. 245 12 $a A world history of war crimes : $b from antiquity to the present / $c Michael Bryant. 250 $a Second edition. 264 1 $a London, UK ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, $c 2021. 300 $a xiv, 406 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The greatly expanded and enhanced second edition of [this book] provides an authoritative and accessible global history of war crimes and the laws of war. Tracing human efforts to limit warfare, from codes of war in antiquity designed to maintain a religiously conceived cosmic order to the gradual use in the modern age of the criminal trial as a means of enforcing universal humanitarian norms, Michael Bryant's book is a masterful account of the subject. Five brand new chapters are included that reinforce the geographical, chronological, historiographical and conceptual dimensions of the book"-- $c Provided by the publisher. 505 0 $a The roots of the law of war in world history -- The law of war in pre-Columbian America -- Making law in the slaughterhouse of the world : early modernity & the law of war -- Colonialism and the law of war : Ireland and the Americas -- The law of war in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : Europe and the United States of America -- The first world war and the failure of the law of war -- The second world war and the triumph of the law of war -- Into the 21st century : war crimes & their treatment since the second world war -- Singers of songs of experience : trying to explain war crimes in world history -- Conclusion : the future of the law of war. 650 0 $a War crimes $x History. 650 0 $a Crimes against humanity $x History. 650 0 $a War (International law) $x History. 650 7 $a Crimes against humanity $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00883142 650 7 $a War crimes $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170465 650 7 $a War (International law) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170412 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bryant, Michael S. $t A world history of war crimes $b 2nd edition. $d London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021 $z 9781350106611 $w (DLC) 2020036910 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526013851.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E7D9F28E9E911EBBBC9467A3DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search