Legal History

The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars: From Indigenous Australians to the American Civil War

By Samuel C. Duckett White
Brill Nijhoff November 2021

Specifications

ISBN-13
9789004464285
Publisher
Brill Nijhoff
Publication
November 2021
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only
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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 experience in communities. Containing essays by a range of laws of war academics and practitioners, this volume is a starting point in a new debate on the question: how international is international humanitarian law?

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Samuel White
1. Indigenous Australians
Ray Kerkhove & Samuel White
2. Māori Warfare and the New Zealand Wars – Atrocities, Chivalry and Apologies
Alexander Gillespie
3. The Aztecs
Samuel White & Ray Kerkhove
4. The Late Middle Ages
Samuel White
5. The Renaissance
Kyle Walker
6. The Viking Age
Andrew D. Butler
7. Pirates and Privateers in Elizabethan England
Andrew Read
8. Code of Necessity – Lawfare During the United States Civil War
Christopher M. Bailey
Conclusion
Samuel White

Index
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