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Humane : how the United States abandoned peace and reinvented war / Samuel Moyn.

Van Pelt Library KZ6385 .M835 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Moyn, Samuel, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
War (International law).
International law--United States.
International law.
United States.
United States--Military policy.
Military policy.
Genre:
Instructional and educational works.
Physical Description:
400 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Summary:
"A history of how an international effort to outlaw war gave way to an effort to regulate it, with an emphasis on the role played by the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I BRUTALITY
1. The Warning
2. Blessed Are the Peacemakers
3. Laws of Inhumanity
4. Air War and America's Brutal Peace
pt. II HUMANITY
5. The Vietnamese Pivot
6. "Cruelty Is the Worst Thing We Do"
7. The Road to Humanity After September 11
8. The Arc of the Moral Universe.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780374173708
0374173702
OCLC:
1227087300

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