Overview

This book offers a culture-by-culture account of various unique restrictions placed on warfare over time, in a bid to demonstrate the underlying humanity often accompanying the horrors of war. It offers the first systematic exploration of Indigenous Australian laws of war, relaying decades of experience in communities. Containing essays by a range of laws of war academics and practitioners, this volume is a starting point in a new debate on the question: how international is international humanitarian law? See also its companion volume The Laws of Yesterday's Wars 2: From Ancient India to East Africa

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Author:   Samuel White
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Volume:   58
Weight:   0.518kg
ISBN:  

9789004464285

ISBN 10:   900446428
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   18 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction   Samuel White 1 Indigenous Australians   Ray Kerkhove & Samuel White 2 Māori Warfare and the New Zealand Wars – Atrocities, Chivalry and Apologies   Alexander Gillespie 3 The Aztecs   Samuel White & Ray Kerkhove 4 The Late Middle Ages   Samuel White 5 The Renaissance   Kyle Walker 6 The Viking Age   Andrew D. Butler 7 Pirates and Privateers in Elizabethan England   Andrew Read 8 Code of Necessity – Lawfare During the United States Civil War   Christopher M. Bailey Conclusion   Samuel White Index

Reviews

This well written and researched book is a timely and important contribution to the literature of international humanitarian law, and our understanding of the fundamental importance of its principles for humanity from the dawn of history. Matthew E.K. Neuhaus, Australian Ambassador to the Netherlands, in The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, Vol. 22, No. 1 (2023). This book makes a strong case for its premise that restraint in warfare is a universal phenomenon. The prohibitions were minimal in some cases and still allowed for great cruelty, with genocidal action in particular seeming to have been widely practised. […] This is an original insight and a somewhat heartening one for those who support an international legal order. Cameron Moore, Associate Professor, UNELaw, in The Military Law and the Law of War Review, Vol. 60 No.2, 2022, pp.255–259.

Author Information

Samuel White has served as a Royal Australian Infantry Corps and Australian Army Legal Corps officer. He has published many articles on international and domestic military law and international humanitarian law.

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