From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law

ISBN-13: 9780198785415 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

Will Smiley

Opis

In this original study, Will Smiley reassesses an aspect of the legacy of the Ottoman-Russian wars in the eighteenth century: both empires had a long history of slavery, but in the course of the eighteenth century they worked out a new regional international law that transformed captivity, introducing the concept of prisoners of war.

Recenzje

This is an extensively detailed history of Ottoman Turkish relations primarily but not entirely with the Russian Empire, the Hapsburgs, and the West, dealing with the numerous wars in which it was involved between 1700 and 1876... Recommended

O autorze

Will Smiley is a historian of the Middle East and of international and Islamic law, with a particular interest in the Ottoman Empire. He is Assistant Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and his JD from Yale Law School, and previously held fellowships in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, and in Legal History at New York University.