Humane : how the United States abandoned peace and reinvented war / Samuel Moyn.
Humane : how the United States abandoned peace and reinvented war / Samuel Moyn.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
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G 2021/2594
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English
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Physical content
400 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Part I: Brutality. The warning ; Blessed are the peacemakers ; Laws of inhumanity ; Air war and America's brutal peace -- Part II: Humanity. The Vietnamese pivot ; "Cruelty is the worst thing we do" ; The road to humanity after September ; The arc of the moral universe -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Maki...
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2021.
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Summary
"A history of how an international effort to outlaw war gave way to an effort to regulate it, with an emphasis on the role played by the United States" -- Provided by publisher....
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Humane : how the United States abandoned peace and reinvented war / Samuel Moyn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2021
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G 2021/2594
Record Identifier
74VKaXLxXOoy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaXLxXOoy
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ISBN
0374173702
9780374173708
DDC
341.6
MMS ID
991024436227402626