War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice A Global History

In this sweeping, definitive work, historian David Crowe offers an unflinching account of the long and troubled history of genocide and war crimes. From ancient atrocities to more recent horrors, he traces their disturbing consistency but also the heroic

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A Global History

DAVID M. CROWE

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War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice

WAR CRIMES, GENOCIDE, AND JUSTICE

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Acknowledgments 1

Crimes of War: Antiquity to the Middle Ages

vii 1

2 War and Crimes in China and Postmedieval Europe

25

3

Colonialism: The Americas, Asia, and Africa

47

4

Birth of the Modern Laws of War—Lieber to Versailles

79

5 Peace, Law, and the Crimes of World War II

115

6

The Nuremberg IMT Trial

151

7

The Tokyo IMT Trial

195

8 Post–World War II National Trials in Europe and Asia 9 10

243

The Genocide and Geneva Conventions: Eichmann, Lemkin, Tibet, Guatemala, and the Korean War

283

IHL: Soviet-Afghan War, Saddam Hussein, Ad Hoc Tribunals, and Guantán