A History of Military Occupation from 1792 to 1914 / Peter M. R. Stirk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stirk, Peter M. R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military occupation--History.

Military occupation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first comparative history of military occupation as a political phenomenonAn understanding of military occupation as a distinct phenomenon first emerged in the 18th century. This book shows how this understanding developed and the problems that the occupiers, the occupied, commentators and the courts encountered.Covers all major occupations including:France, Sicily, Greece, Belgium, Syria, Mexico, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Egypt, Korea, Peking, the Boer Republics; Latin America; and those related to the Napoleonic Wars, the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War, the Russo-Turkish War, and the Spanish-American War

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: From Conquest to Occupation

1 The Era of the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars

2 European Occupations before 1870

3 Military Occupation and America: Expansion and Civil War

4 The Franco-German War and Occupation of France

5 Codification of a Law of Occupation

6 Occupations to the Eve of the First World War

7 Occupations by the United States of America and the Spanish-American War

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-7486-7600-7