| Description |
xx, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-437) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The enemy: imposing the condition of captivity -- Prisoners of independence: British and Hessian enemy prisoners of war -- Habeas corpus: war against Loyalists and Quakers -- The second American Revolution: cartel and enemy prisoners of the War of 1812 -- Manifest destiny versus nativism: Mexico, 1846-1848 -- Prisoners of politics: a very uncivil war -- Indians as POWs in America: from discovery to 1914 -- Spaniards and Insurrectos: Spanish-American War (1898) and war in the Philippines (1899-1905) -- Over there and over here: enemy prisoners of war and prisoners of state in the Great War -- Pensionierte Wehrmacht: German and Italian POWs and internees in the United States -- The reborn: Japanese soldiers as enemy prisoners of war and American Nisei internees -- After the victory: optimism, justice, or vengeance? -- Prisoners at war: forced repatriation and the prison revolts in Korea -- Vietnam quagmire: enemy prisoners of war, Phoenix, and the Vietcong infrastructure -- To Desert Storm and beyond: enemy prisoners of war and the conflict of rules -- Iraqi freedom, Abu Ghraib, and the Guantanamo: the problem of the moral high ground -- The evolution of new paradigms: reflections on the past, present, and future -- Appendixes. Loyalist units organized in the American Revolution -- Cartel for the exchange of POWs in the War of 1812 -- Confederate and union POW camps -- General oder 207: instructions for the government of armies of the United States -- Andersonville deaths, 1864-1865 -- Hague convention ratified by the United States, 3 December 1909 -- German prisoners captured by U.S. divisions, 1917-1918 -- Executive order 9066 -- World War II trials of the U.S. personnel -- Nuremberg principles, 1946 -- Geneva convention, 1949 -- U.S. code of conduct, 1954. |
| Subject |
Prisoners of war -- United States -- History.
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Prisoners of war -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
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United States -- History, Military.
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| ISBN |
9780813125893 hardcover alkaline paper $34.95 |
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0813125898 hardcover alkaline paper |
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