A History of Military Occupation from 1792 to 1914

ISBN-13: 9781474428415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 312 str.

Peter M. R. Stirk

Opis

An understanding of military occupation as a distinct phenomenon first emerged in the 18th century. This book shows how this understanding developed and the problems that the occupiers, the occupied, commentators and the courts encountered.

Spis treści

Introduction: From Conquest to Occupation; 1. The Era of the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars; 2. European Occupations before 1870; 3. Military occupation and America: expansion and civil war; 4. The Franco-German war and occupation of France; 5. Codification of a Law of Occupation; 6. Occupations to the Eve of the First World War; 7. Occupations by the United States of America and the Spanish-American War; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.