| Description |
315 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
The past in the present |
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Past in the present (Oxford, England)
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| Contents |
The trial of Charles I and the last judgment -- The trial of Louis XVI and the Terror -- War guilt after World War I -- Defeat in the dock : the Riom trial -- Justice as purge : Marshal Pétain faces his accusers -- Treachery on trial : the case of Vidkun Quisling -- Nuremberg : making war illegal -- Creating legitimacy : the trial of Marshal Antonescu -- Ethnic cleansing and national cleansing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1947 -- People's justice in liberated Hungary -- From mass execution to amnesty and pardon : postwar trials in Bulgaria, Finland, and Greece -- Politics as conspiracy : the Tokyo trials -- The Greek colonels, Emperor Bokassa, and the Argentine generals : transitional justice, 1975-2007 -- Revolution returns : the trial of Nicolae Ceauşescu -- A state on trial : Erich Honecker in Moabit -- Jean Kambanda, convicted without trial -- Kosovo and the New World Order : the trial of Slobodan Milošević -- Regime change and the trial of Saddam Hussein -- Conclusion |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-293) and index |
| Subject |
Heads of state -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
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International criminal courts.
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Trials (Crimes against humanity)
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Trials (Crimes against humanity) -- History.
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Trials (Genocide) -- History.
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Trials (Political crimes and offenses) -- History.
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War crime trials -- History.
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War crime trials.
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| ISBN |
1906165009 (paperback) |
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190616505X (hbk.) |
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9781906165000 (paperback) |
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9781906165055 (hbk.) |
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