In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision making in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal considerations in each. She demonstrates how differences in state structures and legal traditions shaped the way the three belligerents fought the war.
Hull focuses on seven cases: Belgian neutrality, the land war in the west, the occupation of enemy territory, the blockade, unrestricted submarine warfare, the introduction of new weaponry, and reprisals. A Scrap of Paper reconstructs the debates over military decision-making and clarifies the role law played―where it constrained action, where it was manipulated, where it was ignored, and how it developed in combat―in each case. A Scrap of Paper is a passionate defense of the role that the law must play to govern interstate relations in both peace and war.
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Isabel V. Hull is John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. She is the author of Absolute Destruction and Sexuality, State and Civil Society in Germany, 1700–1815.
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Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition / 1st Printing - Cornell Univ Press (2014). VERY GOOD+ in a very good dust jacket. Has a small bump on the bottom edge of the spine. Appears unread. xiii, 368 pages ; 25 cm. . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Prologue: What We Have Forgotten -- 2.) Belgian Neutrality -- 3.) The *Belgian Atrocities* And the Laws of War on Land -- 4.) Occupation and the Treatment Of Enemy Civilians -- 5.) Great Britain and the Blockade -- 6.) Breaking and Making International Law: The Blockade, 1915-1918 -- 7.) Germany and New Weapons: The Submarine, Zeppelin, Poison Gas, Flame Throwers -- 8.) Unrestricted Submarine Warfare -- 9.) Reprisals: Prisoners of War and Allied Aerial Bombardment -- 10.) Conclusion. . . . . . A comparative history that explores how international law shaped, constrained, and was at times disregarded by the major European powers during World War I. Hull demonstrates that legal considerations were central to military and political decision making, with differing legal traditions and state structures influencing each nation?s conduct in the war. Hull argues that the war was as much about the interpretation and defense of international law as it was about strategy, exposing stark contrasts. Through detailed archival research, the book contends that international law was not merely rhetorical, but a crucial and contested element in the making and breaking of wartime decisions, ultimately shaping the trajectory and legacy of the conflict. N° de réf. du vendeur 2508080002
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