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03300aam a2200457 i 4500 001 4A76FB72462211E9A3F20F6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190314012734 008 180123s2018 enkab b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2018932388 020 $a 0198785410 020 $a 9780198785415 035 $a (OCoLC)1051762317 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d NLE $d CDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d ERASA $d RCJ $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a e-ur--- $a e-ur--- 050 00 $a KZ6495 $b .S63 2018 100 1 $a Smiley, Will, $e author. 245 10 $a From slaves to prisoners of war : $b the Ottoman Empire, Russia, and international law / $c Will Smiley. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a x, 283 pages : $b illustration, map ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a The history and theory of international law 520 8 $a The Ottoman-Russian wars of the eighteenth century reshaped the map of Eurasia and the Middle East, but they also birthed a novel concept - the prisoner of war. For centuries, hundreds of thousands of captives, civilians and soldiers alike, crossed the legal and social boundaries of these empires, destined for either ransom or enslavement. But in the eighteenth century, the Ottoman state and its Russian rival, through conflict and diplomacy, worked out a new system of regional international law. Ransom was abolished; soldiers became prisoners of war; and some slaves gained new paths to release, while others were left entirely unprotected. These rules delineated sovereignty, redefined individuals' relationships to states, and prioritized political identity over economic value. In the process, the Ottomans marked out a parallel, non-Western path toward elements of modern international law. Yet this was not a story of European imposition or imitation-the Ottomans acted for their own reasons, maintaining their commitment to Islamic law. For a time even European empires played by these rules, until they were subsumed into the codified global law of war in the late nineteenth century. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-267) and index. 505 00 $g Conclusion. $t Humanitarian law -- $t Slavery and ransom -- $t From the law of ransom to the law of release -- $t The boundaries of the law of release -- $t Prisoners of war -- $t Negotiating the prisoner-of-war system -- $t The rules expand -- $t Those left out -- $t Military reform, reciprocity, and improved treatment -- $t Humanitarian law -- $g Conclusion. 611 27 $a Russo-Turkish Wars (1676-1878) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01102546 650 0 $a Russo-Turkish Wars, 1676-1878. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z Turkey $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z Russia $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a Turkey $x History $y Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. 651 0 $a Russia $x History $y 1689-1801. 650 7 $a Prisoners of war. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077227 651 7 $a Russia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01207312 651 7 $a Turkey. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208963 648 7 $a 1288-1918 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a History and theory of international law. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214015835.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4A76FB72462211E9A3F20F6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search