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