A scrap of paper : breaking and making international law during the Great War / Isabel V. Hull.
2014
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Title
A scrap of paper : breaking and making international law during the Great War / Isabel V. Hull.
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Call Number
KZ6795.W67 H85 2014
ISBN
9780801452734 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801452732 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801452732 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
xiii, 368 pages ; 25 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
99958395786
System Control No.
(OCoLC)862053143
Summary
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. Hull compares wartime decision making in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal considerations in each. Throughout, she emphasizes the profound tension between international law and military necessity in time of war, and demonstrates how differences in state structures and legal traditions shaped the way in which each of the three belligerents fought the war.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-356) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Abbreviations
xii
1.
Prologue: What We Have Forgotten
1
2.
Belgian Neutrality
16
3.
The Belgian Atrocities3r; and the Laws of War on Land
51
4.
Occupation and the Treatment of Enemy Civilians
95
5.
Great Britain and the Blockade
141
6.
Breaking and Making International Law: The Blockade, 1915-1918
183
7.
Germany and New Weapons: Submarines, Zeppelins, Poison Gas, Flamethrowers
211
8.
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
240
9.
Reprisals: Prisoners of War and Allied Aerial Bombardment
276
10.
Conclusion
317
Bibliography
333
Index
357