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001403945 1001_ $$aWhitman, James Q.,$$d1957-
001403945 24514 $$aThe verdict of battle$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe law of victory and the making of modern war /$$cJames Q. Whitman.
001403945 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2012.
001403945 300__ $$a1 online resource (323 p.)
001403945 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001403945 5050_ $$aWhy battles matter -- Accepting the wager of battle -- Laying just claim to the profits of war -- The monarchical monopolization of military violence -- Were there really rules? -- The death of pitched battle.
001403945 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
001403945 520__ $$a"Today, war is considered a last resort for resolving disagreements. But a day of staged slaughter on the battlefield was once seen as a legitimate means of settling political disputes. James Whitman argues that pitched battle was essentially a trial with a lawful verdict. And when this contained form of battle ceased to exist, the law of victory gave way to the rule of unbridled force. The Verdict of Battle explains why the ritualized violence of the past was more effective than modern warfare in bringing carnage to an end, and why humanitarian laws that cling to a notion of war as evil have led to longer, more barbaric conflicts. Belief that sovereigns could, by rights, wage war for profit made the eighteenth century battle's golden age. A pitched battle was understood as a kind of legal proceeding in which both sides agreed to be bound by the result. To the victor went the spoils, including the fate of kingdoms. But with the nineteenth-century decline of monarchical legitimacy and the rise of republican sentiment, the public no longer accepted the verdict of pitched battles. Ideology rather than politics became war's just cause. And because modern humanitarian law provided no means for declaring a victor or dispensing spoils at the end of battle, the violence of war dragged on. The most dangerous wars, Whitman asserts in this iconoclastic tour de force, are the lawless wars we wage today to remake the world in the name of higher moral imperatives."--from pub. webpage.
001403945 650_0 $$aWar$$xMoral and ethical aspects.
001403945 650_0 $$aCombat$$xMoral and ethical aspects.
001403945 650_0 $$aBattles$$zEurope$$xHistory$$y18th century.
001403945 650_0 $$aMilitary art and science$$zEurope$$xHistory$$y18th century.
001403945 650_0 $$aWar (International law)
001403945 650_0 $$aMilitary ethics$$xHistory$$y18th century.
001403945 650_0 $$aMilitary history$$y18th century.
001403945 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aWhitman, James Q., 1957-$$tVerdict of battle.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012$$z9780674067141$$w(DLC) 2012022176$$w(OCoLC)792887516
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