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A century after the outbreak of the Great War, we have forgotten the central role that international law and the dramatically different interpretations of it played in the conflict's origins and conduct. 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. Throughout, she emphasizes the profound tension between international law and military necessity in time of war, and demonstrates how differences in state structures and legal traditions shaped the way in which each of the three belligerents fought the war. Hull focuses on seven cases in which each government’s response was shaped by its understanding of and respect for the law: Belgian neutrality, the land war in the west, the occupation of enemy territory, the blockade, unrestricted submarine warfare, the introduction of new weaponry (including poison gas and the zeppelin), and reprisals. Drawing on voluminous research in German, British, and French archives, the author reconstructs the debates over military decision making and clarifies the role played by law―where it constrained action, where it was manipulated to serve military need, where it was simply ignored, and how it developed in the crucible of combat. She concludes that Germany did not speak the same legal language as the two liberal democracies, with disastrous and far-reaching consequences. The first book on international law and the Great War published since 1920, 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, both from Cornell.
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A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Seller Inventory # 2508080002
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