dc.contributor.author
Zaharoff, Charlie
dc.date.accessioned
2019-10-22T07:37:29Z
dc.date.available
2019-10-22T07:37:29Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/25770
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-25531
dc.description.abstract
Three ex-Confederate officers were tried for war crimes in the aftermath of the American Civil War. These appear to be the first trials in modern history where a government tried officers of an enemy army for violating international customs of war. This thesis offers an integrative analysis of all three trial transcripts. By way of the transcripts and scholarship on the legal and political battles of early Reconstruction, the work clarifies what it was the prosecuting party was after and the extent to which the unfolding of the trials met or broke from their intentions. Doing so offers a strong indication of what allowed these unprecedented trials to take place; at the same time, it suggests what made the federal government abort its broader prosecutorial program after only three trials.
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dc.format.extent
72 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject
crimes against humanity
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dc.subject
political trials
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dc.subject
Reconstruction
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dc.subject
American Civil War
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dc.subject
George Pickett
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dc.subject
Ulysses S. Grant
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Andrew Johnson
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prisoners of war
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dc.subject
international law
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dc.subject
law and politics
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dc.subject
Edwin Stanton
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dc.subject
Confederate States of America
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dc.subject
U.S. History
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dc.subject.ddc
900 Geography and History::970 General history of North America::973 General history of North America; United States
dc.title
The squeamish coroner
dc.identifier.urn
urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-refubium-25770-9
dc.title.subtitle
war crimes trials of early reconstruction
refubium.affiliation
John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien (JFKI)
refubium.affiliation.other
John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien (JFKI) / Abteilung Geschichte
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yes
dcterms.accessRights.dnb
free
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access