A history of the laws of war. Volume 2, The customs and laws of war with regards to civilians in times of conflict / Alexander Gillespie.

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2011.

1 online resource (xii, 311 p.)

"This third volume deals with the question of the control of weaponry, from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age. In doing so, it divides into two parts: namely, conventional weapons and Weapons of Mass Destruction. The examination of the history of arms control of conventional weapons begins with the control of weaponry so that one side could achieve a military advantage over another. This pattern, which only began to change centuries after the advent of gunpowder, was later supplemented by ideals to control types of conventional weapons because their impacts upon opposing combatants were inhumane. By the late twentieth century, the concerns over inhumane conventional weapons were being supplemented by concerns over indiscriminate conventional weapons"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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