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The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars 4 : From Mesopotamia to West Africa / edited by Samuel C. Duckett White.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
- International Humanitarian Law Series ; 75.
- Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2026
- International Humanitarian Law Series ; 75
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
- Humanitarian law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- From Mesopotamia to West Africa
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 2026.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How international is international humanitarian law? The Laws of Yesterday's Wars 4: From Mesopotamia to West Africa , together with its companion volumes, attempts to answer that question. It offers a culture-by-culture account of various unique restrictions placed on warfare over time. Containing essays by a range of laws of war academics and practitioners, it approaches the laws of yesterday’s wars from a wide cross-section of history and culture, seeking to find any common ground and to demonstrate a history of international law outside the usual confines of its ‘development’ by Europeans and its later ‘contributions.’ This volume includes studies on Egyptian, Jewish and Somali rules of war.
- Contents:
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Samuel Camden Duckett White
- 1 Ancient Egyptian Directives of Warfare
- Anthony Spalinger
- 2 The Hittites
- Rory Cox
- 3 Jewish Ethics of War: the Middle Ages
- Norman Solomon
- 4 The Traditional Somali Laws of War
- Ayan Abdirashid Ali
- 5 Changing the Narrative: a Reflection on the Impact of the Tool on African Traditions and the Preservation of Humanity during Warfare
- Tamalin Bolus and Sarah Jean Mabeza
- 6 West African Laws of War – Adopting the Marxist Stages of Historical Development
- Godfree Matthew
- 7 Conclusion
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-70309-8
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004703094 DOI
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