| 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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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-293) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Trials (Political crimes and offenses) -- History.
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Trials (Political crimes and offenses) |
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History. |
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Trials (Crimes against humanity) -- History.
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Trials (Crimes against humanity) |
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Trials (Genocide) -- History.
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Trials (Genocide) |
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War crime trials -- History.
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War crime trials. |
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International criminal courts.
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International criminal courts. |
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Heads of state -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
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Heads of state. |
| ISBN |
9781906165000 paperback |
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1906165009 paperback |
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9781906165055 hardback |
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190616505X hardback |
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