Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia - Trial By Army

Informationen zum Autor Louise Barnett is Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. Her research interests are military culture and history. She is the author of Touched by Fire , a biography of George Armstrong Custer, and Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army’s Notorious Incest Trial. Klappentext Using individual judicial proceedings held within war-time Southeast Asia, this book analyses how the American military legal system handled crimes against civilians and determines what these cases reveal about the way that war produces atrocity against civilians. Zusammenfassung Using individual judicial proceedings held within war-time Southeast Asia, this book analyses how the American military legal system handled crimes against civilians and determines what these cases reveal about the way that war produces atrocity against civilians. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: War in the Philippines 1. Mr. Root’s Atrocity Trials 2. The Real Atrocity Trials Part 2: American Prosecution of Japanese War Crimes in the Philippines 3. MacArthur and Yamashita Part 3: From Lanang to Danang: The Philippine War Writ Large in Vietnam 4. Anatomy of an Atrocity: Captain Vincent Hartmann and the Trial that Wasn’t 5. My Lai: Crossing the Line

Product details

• Authors: Louise Barnett, Louise (Rutgers University Barnett, Barnett Louise
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.2010
• EAN: 9780415556408
• ISBN: 978-0-415-55640-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Moder; Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Rechtsgeschichte, USA, Südostasien, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Militär- und Verteidigungsrecht, Recht des Zivildiensts, Freiwilligendienst, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, LAW / Military, South East Asia, Legal History, United States of America, USA, War Crimes, Asian History, Military and defence law and civilian service law, Military & Defence Law