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A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present Michael Bryant *

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2017

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Published by Bloomsbury, London, 2015.

References

1 Jain, M. P., Outlines of Indian Legal and Constitutional History, 7th ed., LexisNexis, New Delhi, 2014, p. 2Google Scholar.

2 Bryant's previous works include Confronting the “Good Death”: Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945–53, University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 2005Google Scholar; Eyewitness to Genocide: The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955–1966, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN, 2014Google Scholar.

3 For a statutory definition, see Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 2187 UNTS 90/37 ILM 1002 (1998)/[2002] ATS 15, 17 July 1998 (entered into force 1 July 2002), Art. 8.

4 A World History of War Crimes, p. 1.

5 Ibid., p. 5.

6 For comprehensive data on this connection, the scientific and anthropologic study done by Hobhouse could also be used as it exhibits a data analysis of men slain, women and children enslaved, human sacrifice and cannibalism during primitive feuds. It would, however, be a secondary source. See Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney, Wheeler, Gerald Clair and Ginsberg, Morris, The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples, Chapman & Hall, London, 1915, pp. 228243Google Scholar.

7 A World History of War Crimes, pp. 18–38.

8 See, for example, Fenwick, Charles G., International Law, Indian reprint, Vakils, Feffer and Simons, Bombay, 1971Google Scholar; Seignobos, Charles, History of Ancient Civilisation, trans. Herbert, Arthur Wilde, Charles Scribner, New York, 1906, pp. 158159Google Scholar.

9 A World History of War Crimes, p. 68.

10 Ibid., p. 94.

11 Ibid., pp. 155–156.

12 This chapter demonstrates the impact of Bryant's earlier works, which concentrated on the Second World War. See, for example, the topics covered in his previous works, above note 2.

13 A World History of War Crimes, p. 196.

14 Ibid., p. 224.

15 Ibid., p. 227.

16 Ibid.