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War, Law and Humanity - The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853-1914 (Paperback)
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War, Law and Humanity - The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853-1914 (Paperback)
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War, Law and Humanity tells the story of the transatlantic campaign
to either mitigate the destructive forces of the battlefield, or
prevent wars from being waged altogether, in the decades prior to
the disastrous summer of 1914. Starting with the Crimean War of the
1850s, James Crossland traces this campaign to control warfare from
the scandalous barracks of Scutari to the shambolic hospitals of
the American Civil War, from the bloody sieges of Paris and Erzurum
to the combative conference halls of Geneva and The Hague,
uncovering the intertwined histories of a generation of
humanitarians, surgeons, pacifists and utopians who were shocked
into action by the barbarism and depravities of war. By examining
the fascinating personal accounts of these figures, Crossland
illuminates the complex motivations and influential actions of
those committed to the campaign to control war, demonstrating how
their labours built the foundation for the ideas - enshrined in our
own times as international norms - that soldiers need caring for,
weapons need restricting and wars need rules.
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