A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present

by Michael Bryant

Book Overview

A World History of War Crimes provides a truly global history of war crimes and the involvement of the legal systems faced with these acts. Documenting the long historical arc traced by 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 norms, this book provides a comprehensive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472510623
• ISBN13: 9781472510624
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"