A Scrap of Paper
Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War
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2014
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-5273-4 (ISBN)
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-5273-4 (ISBN)
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A century after the outbreak of the Great War, we have forgotten the central role that international law and the dramatically different interpretations of it played in the conflict's origins and conduct. In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision-making in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal...
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 on seven cases: Belgian neutrality, the land war in the west, the occupation of enemy territory, the blockade, unrestricted submarine warfare, the introduction of new weaponry, and reprisals. A Scrap of Paper reconstructs the debates over military decision-making and clarifies the role law played—where it constrained action, where it was manipulated, where it was ignored, and how it developed in combat—in each case. A Scrap of Paper is a passionate defense of the role that the law must play to govern interstate relations in both peace and war.
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 on seven cases: Belgian neutrality, the land war in the west, the occupation of enemy territory, the blockade, unrestricted submarine warfare, the introduction of new weaponry, and reprisals. A Scrap of Paper reconstructs the debates over military decision-making and clarifies the role law played—where it constrained action, where it was manipulated, where it was ignored, and how it developed in combat—in each case. A Scrap of Paper is a passionate defense of the role that the law must play to govern interstate relations in both peace and war.
Isabel V. Hull is John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. She is the author of Absolute Destruction and Sexuality, State and Civil Society in Germany, 1700–1815.
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. ConclusionBibliography
Index
| Verlagsort | Ithaca |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 168 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 28 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8014-5273-2 / 0801452732 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8014-5273-4 / 9780801452734 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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